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CATALOGUE

OF THE EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF

SPLENDID MANUSCRIPTS,

CHIEFLY UPON VELLUM,

IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES OF EUROPE AM THE EAST, POMED BY

M. GUGLIELMO LIBRI,

The *** sector, who iS *1^>^^ ^£» °f '" ***. "* * ^ reaS0"

prajjst ijpst Prompts iwill to finmi :

Rtblia Latina Ssec. XI, with Miniatures; Evangelia IV, Grace, Sec. X-XI; several copies
IT viZ^Zl in Latin of Ssec. IX, with Miniatures in the Byzantine style; various
Lkc— 7Z iith anc Txth Centuries', with Miniatures; , j large number of the Fatheks
of the Church, including S. Gregorius Nyssenus, Grace, Sec.IX; S Joanne. Chrysostomus
Trace Saec X &c. ; Two important MSS. of Saint Cypeian, one of the Vllth and the other of
the IXth Century; different Woeks of St. Augustin, St. Jeeome, St. Geegory the Great,
St IsmoEE &c. &c. all of the Vlllth, IXth, Xth, and Xlth Centuries; Beba in Maecum,
Sec VIII,' cotemporary with the Author; Bed^ Historia Anglorum Sec. XI; Vim
sTnctorum Sec IX, X, and XI, with Ancient Designs or Miniatures of the Anglo-Saxon
School • several Collections of Liturgies, in Greek or in Latin, with the Ancient Music, written
Sec. IX, X, XI ; Justiniam Digestum Novum, Sec. XI-XII.

MANY OE THE GREEK WRITERS AND NEARLY ALL THE LATIN CLASSICS,

INCLUDING

Lucretius (S»c. XIV.), Lncanus (fee. XIII.) Claudianus (S*c XII.^ Vegetius (fee. XI)

Censorious, , Prudentius (fee. X.),Donatus (fee. IX.), Priscianus (Sec. XI), Boetius (fee. XI.)

Cassiodorus (fee. IX.), Grammatici (Saec. X.), &c. &c.

fMjMtkitl, ptMcsl, sift otlF Sda&t »*,

Including the earliest Manuscript in existence, containing modern numerical figures

ANCIENT ITALIAN POETS AND PROSE WRITERS;

Works in the Limousin Dialect; Portulani and Ancient Illuminated Maps;

feig gtm\ |1oetrg an* mnpabUefetb Scmawes of Cfefcatlrg; ©tt> ©nglisfe |!«trg;
" AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF ORIENTAL WORKS ;

HOR^ AND OTHER DEVOTIONAL BOOKS, with magnificent Miniatures of the various Schools

AUTOGRAPH MSS. OF TASSO, GALILEO, KEPLER, LEipm, A^A

WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTIOf^^3

BY MESSES. 01* JNEW I0RK.

S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON,

AUCTIONEERS OF LITERARY PROPERTY AND WORKS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE FINE ARTS,

AT THEIR HOUSE, 3, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND,

On MONDAY, 28th of MARCH, 1859, and Seven following Days,

(Sunday excepted), at One o' Clock precisely each Day.

MAY BE VIEWED THREE DAYS PRIOR, AND CATALOGUES HAD.

VBINTED BY J. DAVY AND SONS, 137, LONG ACHE, LONDON.

CONDITIONS OF SALE.

I. The highest bidder to be the buyer ; and if any dispute arise between

bidders, the lot so disputed shall be immediately put up again, provided
the seller cannot decide the said dispute.

II. No person to advance less than 6d. ; above ten shillings, Is. ; above five

pounds, 2s. Gd. ; and so on.

III. The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay
down 10s. in the pound, if required, in part payment of the purchase-
money ; in default of which the lot or lots purchased to be immediately
put up again and re-sold.

IV. The lots to be taken away, at the buyer's expense,immediately after the con-
clusion of the sale; and in default of which Messrs. S, LEIGH SOTHEBY
and JOHN WILKINSON will not hold themselves responsible if lost,
stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole
risk of the purchaser. If, at the expiration of One Week after the con-
clusion of the sale, the manuscripts or other property are not cleared
or paid for, they will then be catalogued for immediate sale, and the
expense, the same as if re-sold, will be added to the amount at which the
books were bought. Messrs. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY and JOHN
WILKINSON will have the option of re-selling the uncleared lots either
by public or private sale, without any notice being given to the defaulter.

V. The manuscripts will be sold with all faults and errors of description.

VI. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in the settlement
of the purchases, no lot can on any account be removed during the time
of sale.

VII. Upon failure of complying with the above conditions, the money required
and deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited ; and if any loss is
sustained in the re-selling of such boohs as are not cleared or paid for, all
charges on such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale.

Gentlemen who cannot attend this Sale may have their Commissions faithfully

executed by their humble Servants,

S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON,

Wellington Street, Strand.

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of Mft York.

CONTENTS.

Introduction (in English)

Page ii

Introduction (en Erancais)

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iii

List of the Editions quoted in

the Catalogui

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xli

List of the Facsimiles

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1

Catalogue of the Libri Collection

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Supplement to the Catalogue

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Plates.

March 28th,

1859 .

Eirst Day's Sale

Monday,

. Page 1

Second Day's Sale .

Tuesday,

March 29th,

5) •

37

Third Day's Sale . . .

"Wednesday,

March 30th,

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72

Eourth Day's Sale .

Thursday,

March 31st,

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99

Fifth Day's Sale . - . .

Eriday,

April 1st,

ti •

. 133

Sixth Day's Sale

Saturday,

April 2nd,

JJ

. 165

Seventh Day's Sale

Monday,

April 4th,

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. 205

Eighth Day's Sale .

Tuesday,

April 5th,

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. 233

INTRODUCTION*.

In publishing the description of one of the most considerable Collections
of Manuscripts which have been exposed to public sale for many years, we have
thought it our duty to enter more into detail than is usual in Sale Catalogues.
Our motives for so doing will be easily comprehended. In spite of the
assistance of every kind offered to collectors, — in spite of so many minute
descriptions, so many considerable catalogues, and so many excellent biblio-
graphical works which continually make their appearance, — in fine, notwith-
standing the celebrated Manuel of M. Brunet — the necessity of placing in
Sale Catalogues explanatory notes to all printed books, remarkable either for
their rarity or their condition, is more and more felt. How much more then
must similar notes be necessary in the case of volumes which are not, like
different copies belonging to the same edition, individuals of one species ;
but which, on the contrary, have all, as manuscripts, an importance, a value, a
rarity, and, in a word, a distinct individuality ?

From the first the description, if we may so define it, of a printed book
has been reduced to the simplest form of expression. Apart from certain
exceptions too well known to render it necessary for us to dwell on them,
the name of the author, the title of the work, its size and date, the name of the
printer, and that of the town where the book appeared, are sufficient to
enable any one to recognize, even at a distance, that the book of which
he reads the description in a catalogue is identical with that which is
described in the bibliographical work before him ; besides, the tolerably
frequent appearance at sales of books, even of those considered rare,
while showing the general increase of their value, server also, at least
within certain limits, to fix their price. The case is different with manu-
scripts, which are not only too seldom met with at sales to enable us to
form a correct idea of their value by these means, but which might even

* For the sake of persons unacquainted with the English language, we subjoin in French
this Introduction, which is intended to afford a general idea of the collection described in the
present Catalogue.

of New York.

INTRODUCTION*.

En publiant la description d'une des Collections les plus considerables de
Mannscrits qui aient ete livrees depuis longtemps aux encheres, nous avons
cm devoir entrer dans plus de details qu'on ne le fait generalement dans les
catalogues de vente. On comprendra facilement les motifs qui nous y
ont porte. Malgre les secours de toute nature offerts aux collecteurs,
malgre tant de descriptions minutieuses, tant de catalogues considerables,
tant d'excellents ouvrages de bibliograpbie, qui paraissent tous les jours,
enfin malgre le celebre Manuel de M. Brunet, on sent de plus en plus le
besoin d'introduire dans les catalogues de vente des notes explicatives pour
tous les livres imprimes que leur rarete ou leur condition rend particulierement
remarquables ; combien plus de telles notes ne deviennent elles pas necessaires
quand il est question de volumes qui ne sont pas, comme les divers exemplaires
d'une meme edition, des individus appartenant a la meme espece, mais qui
au contraire ont tous, comme les manuscrits, une importance, une valeur,
une rarete, en un mot une individualite distincte ?

Des l'origine, le signalement, pour ainsi dire, d'un livre imprime a ete reduit
a sa plus simple expression. A part certaines exceptions trop connues pour
qu'on ait besoin de s'y arreter, le nom de l'auteur, le titre de l'ouvrage, le format,
la date, le nom de l'imprimeur et celui de la ville ou le livre a paru, suffisent
pour faire reconnaitre, meme de loin, que.le livre dont on lit la description dans
un catalogue est pareil a celui qui est decrit dans tel ouvrage de bibliograpbie
qu'on a sous les yeux. De plus Tapparition assez frequente dans les
ventes des livres meme qu'on considere comme rares, tout en montrant la
progression generalement ascendante de leur valeur, sert, dans certaines limites
du moins, a en determiner le prix. II en est autrement des manuscrits, qui non
seulement paraissent trop rarement dans les ventes pour qu'on puisse par ce

* Pour les personnes auxquelles la langue Anglaise ne serait pas familiere, nous motions
ici en Francais cette Introduction destinee ^ donner une idee g^nerale de la collection decrite

dans ce Catalogue.

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iv INTEODUCTION.

appear there in great numbers every day without their repeated occurrence
assisting us, in the smallest degree, to appreciate the worth of those which
might be announced, imperfectly described, in later catalogues. We are
far from having found a formula for the exact description of manuscripts as
simple as that which we employ for printed books. In fact, without speaking
of the name of the author and the title of the work, which are too often
wanting in manuscripts, or of the date, which is scarcely ever indicated, and
which even after a careful examination can only be determined approximately
and by conjecture, the importance of a manuscript, and the value which should
be set on it, depend on reasons which differ for the most part from those
which guide amateurs in their choice of printed books. Except in the
case of manuscripts with miniatures, or richly ornamented, which are real
objects of art and generally considered as such, a true connoisseur of manu-
scripts will be governed in his choice by motives which not only escape the
vulgar, but which often remain unknown even to those best acquainted with
printed books. Thus, supposing it to contain a good various reading which
might throw light on the doubtful sense of an obscure passage, some imperfect,
torn and soiled manuscript of Caesar or Livy, would be more eagerly sought
after by a connoisseur than one of those beautiful volumes so exquisitely
written in Erance or Italy during the fifteenth century. Here a marginal
annotation may clear up a difficulty which has puzzled the most skilful philo-
logists; there, an abbreviation, seemingly illegible, may place us on the track of
the real author of a work which has been considered anonymous. Those who
know how to seek, encounter not only new facts, curious various readings, and
unpublished fragments, but even discover whole works, perfectly unknown,
in obscure collections, in which they thought at first sight to find only
mystic reveries. At a period when parchment was scarce and dear, all
vacant spaces were turned to account, and as soon as a blank page was
observed in a volume, it was eagerly devoted to register facts which are
sometimes to us of great interest. Frequently the origiual text was even
washed off, or scratched out, and admirable pages replaced by writings no doubt
less beautiful, but more suited to the wants of the moment, and it is well
known what unhoped-for discoveries these erased books, these palimpsests, have
yielded in our time to penetrating and skilful eyes. At a later date, when
the discovery of printing caused manuscripts to be neglected, they were
mutilated for the purpose of employing the fragments in all sorts of uses, and
we still find occasionally in those parchment linings or fly-leaves, which the
binders placed in their books, precious relics which do not escape the practised
eye of an amateur.

Many persons imagine that, because so many books have been printed,
the science of history is complete, and that nothing remains but to add some
details, and above all to daub the picture with a profusion of colours which
too often only obliterate the primitive form. When, however, we wish to

INTRODUCTION. v

moyen se faire une juste idee de leur valeur, mais qui meme pourraient y paraitre
en grand nombre chaque jour sans que leur apparition repetee aidat en aucune
facon a apprecier ceux qui, imparfaitement decrits, seraient annonces
dans de nouveaux catalogues. Pour la description exacte des manuscrits, on
est loin d'avoir trouve une formule simple comnie pour les livres imprimes.
En effet, sans parler du nom de l'auteur et du titre de l'ouvrage, qui trop sou vent
manquent dans les manuscrits, ni de la date qui n'est presque jamais indiquee
et que, meme apres un examen attentif, on ne saurait determiner que d'une
maniere approximative et assez conjecturale, l'importance d'un manuscrit, le prix
qu' on doit y attacher, dependent de causes qui, pour la plupart, sont differentes
de celles qui dirigent les amateurs dans le choix des livres imprimes. Sauf pour
les manuscrits a miniatures ou richemeut ornes, qui, sont de veritables objets-
d'art et que generalement on considere corame tels, un bon connaisseur de manu-
scrits sera dirige dans son choix par des motifs qui non seulement echappent
au vulgaire, mais qui, souvent meme, demeurent inconnus aux hommes con-
naissant le mieux les livres imprimes. Aussi, s'il contient une bonne variante
qui puisse eclaircir le sens douteux d'un passage difficile, tel manuscrit incom-
plet, sale et dechire de Cesar ou de Tite Live, sera-t-il plus avidement recherche
par un connaisseur qu'un de ces beaux volumes si admirablement ecrits
en France ou en Italie au XVe siecle. Ici une annotation marginale
eclaircira une difficulty qui avait arrete les plus habiles philologues, la une
abreviation qui avait semble illisible mettra sur la voie du veritable auteur
d'un ouvrage qu'on avait relegue dans la classe des anonymes. Ceux qui
savent chercher, non seulement rencontrent des faits nouveaux, des variantes
curieuses, des fragments inedits, mais ils decouvrent meme des ouvrages entiers,
parfaitement inconnus, dans des recueils obscurs ou, a premiere vue, Ton
croirait ne rencontrer que des reveries mystiques. A une epoque ou le
parchemin etait rare et cher, on mettait a, profit tous les vides, et des qu'on
voyait une page blanche dans un volume, on s'empressait d'y enregistrer
des faits qui parfois ont pour nous un grand interet. Souvent meme on
lavait, on grattait l'ancienne ecriture pour remplacer des pages admirables
par des ecrits moins beaux, sans doute, mais plus appropries aux besoins du
moment, et Ton sait quelles decouvertes inesperees ces livres grattes, ces
palimpsestes ont procurees de nos jours a des yeux habiles et percants. Plus-
tard, lorsque la decouverte de l'imprimerie fit negliger les manuscrits, on les
mutila pour en employer les fragments a toutes sortes d'usages, et parfois nous
trouvons encore dans les gardes en parchemin que les relieurs mettaient alors
a leurs livres de precieux feuillets qui n'echappent pas au regard exerce de
1' amateur.

Bien des gens s'imaginent que parcequ'on a imprime tant de livres,
la science historique est complete, et qu'il n'y a plus qu'a ajouter quelques
details, et surtout qu' a verser sur le tableau une profusion de couleurs
qui, trop souvent, font disparaitre la forme primitive. Pourtant quand

vi INTKODUCTION";

study, thoroughly, the history not only of literature and science, but
also that of manners, religions, laws, and the organization of modern
societies, and endeavour to discover the truth in the midst of that chaos
which, on the fall of the Eoman Empire, the invasion of the barbarians
produced in Europe ; when we desire to follow, step by step, the labour
of reconstruction and continual renovation which has been in operation ever
since, we quickly perceive that printed books do not suffice ; that in many
instances we have been too easily led to believe what we were taught by
history which may be termed official; that bad texts, reproduced without dis-
crimination and without criticism, have set in circulation a number of errors
which have been often accepted as truths ; and that even in the present day,
after so many useful and important efforts, in every country, to root out these
errors, it is still necessary to have recourse to manuscripts, if we wish
to clear up the most difficult questions. Therefore we find men who in
all ages have made for themselves an illustrious name by their historical
researches, men whose labours fill us with most admiration, bestowing unceas-
ingly their attention on manuscripts, and taking not only the liveliest interest
in their preservation, but also in the publication, comparison, and purifica-
tion of the texts ; for therein are the most faithful and authentic monu-
ments of the intellectual life of those generations which have laboured
so much to give to the world its moral features and actual consti-
tution.

To have recourse to original writers and ancient chronicles is to take a
prodigious step. We thus get rid of those heroes in powdered wigs, who
have been so long exhibited under ancient names, in books as well as on
the stage. "We are far from pretending that the past cannot be correctly
studied in printed books, but we fearlessly assert that as the man who has
recourse to original works possesses a great advantage over one who reads
only compilations, so the savant who makes himself familiar with manuscripts
will learn more from them respecting the language, the arts and sciences, the
habits, the domestic manners, the religious belief, and the method of
study of the people whose history he wishes to understand, than those who
read only printed books. On all these subjects there is in manuscripts
a mass of details which cannot be transferred to the book, as the physiognomy
of the manuscript necessarily disappears under the labours of the editor: As
the sight of Rome and Pompeii insures an incontestable superiority to the
artist and the archaeologist who have inspected the original monuments
instead of engravings of them, so the knowledge of manuscripts reveals to the
student a multitude of facts which he would vainly seek for in printed editions.
Unfortunately these manuscripts are not easily preserved. An im-
mense number of them have already disappeared ; and both by old age
and a thousand different accidents, many have been destroyed, and will
day after day continue to perish. A time will inevitably come when all

INTRODUCTION. vii

on veut etudier a fond non seulement l'histoire litteraire et scientifique, mais
aussi celle dcs moeurs, des religions, des lois, de l'organisation des societes
modernes, et tacher de decouvrir la verite au milieu de ce chaos qu'a la chute
de l'Empire Eomain l'invasion des barbares avait produit en Europe ; quand
on veut suivre pas a pas le travail de reconstruction et de renouvellement
continuel qui depuis lors s'est opere, on s'apercoit bien vite, que les livres
imprimes ne suffisent pas ; que dans beaucoup de cas on a ete entraine trop
facilement a croire ce que nous enseignait l'histoire qu'on pourrait appeler
officielle ; que de mauvais textes, reproduits sans discemement et sans critique,
ont mis en circulation une multitude d'erreurs, accepte'es souvent sans con-
trole ; et que, meme aujourd'hui, apres tant de travaux utiles et important*
faits dans tous les pays pour deraciner ces erreurs, il faut encore, si Ton
veut bien s'eclairer sur les questions les plus difficiles, avoir recours aux
manuscrits. Aussi voyons nous les hommes qui de tout temps se sont fait
un nom illustre par leurs recherches historiques, ces hommes dont les tra-
vaux nous remplissent le plus d' admiration, porter sans cesse leurs regards
vers les manuscrits et prendre un interet tres vif a leur conservation ainsi qu' a
la publication, a la comparison, et a l'epuration des textes ; car ce sont la les
monuments les plus certains, les plus authentiques, de la vie intellectuelle de
ces generations qui ont tant travaille a donner au monde sa forme morale
et sa constitution actuelle.

Eecourir aux ecrivains originaux et aux anciennes chroniques, c'est deja
faire un pas immense. On se debarrasse ainsi de ces heros a perruque poudree
que, sur les theatres comme dans les livres, Ton a si longtemps montres
sous d'anciens noms. Nous sommes loin de pretendre qu'on ne puisse
pas bien etudier les temps passes dans les livres imprimes, mais nous ne
craindrons pas d'affirmer que comme celui qui a recours aux ouvrages ori-
ginaux a un grand avantage sur Thorn me qui ne lit que des compilations, le
savant qui se familiarise avec les manuscrits en apprendra plus sur la langue,
sur les sciences, sur les arts, sur les habitudes, sur les moeurs intimes, sur les
croyances, sur la maniere de travailler des hommes dont il veut connaitre
l'histoire, que ceux qui ne lisent que des imprimes. Sur toutes ces choses
il y a dans les manuscrits une foule de details qu'on ne saurait faire passer
dans un ouvrage oii la physionomie du manuscrit disparait necessairement par
le travail de l'editeur. De meme que la vue de Eome et de Pompei assure
une superiorite incontestable a l'artiste et a l'archeologue qui ont examine
les monuments originaux, la connaissance des manuscrits revele a l'homme
d' etude une foule de faits qu'il chercherait vainement dans les im-
pressions.

Malheureusement ces manuscrits ne sont pas faciles a conserver. II en
a disparu un nombre incalculable ; et par la vetuste, comme par mille accidents
divers, il s'en detruit et s'en detruira beaucoup tous les jours. Un moment
viendra mfailliblement ou tous ceux qui existent encore aujourd'hui seront

viii INTRODUCTION.

tbose which now exist will be annihilated. This is an additional motive
for publishing, as often as possible, detailed descriptions of those which
time has spared, especially of those which either on account of their
antiquity, or the subjects of which they treat, seem to call for a particular
examination. If the descriptions contained in this Catalogue should appear
sometimes too diffuse, we would take the liberty to remind the reader that in
the largest and most celebrated catalogues, the analytical catalogues for in-
stance published by Bandini or Montfaucon, the descriptions of volumes, of
even comparatively slight interest, are much more considerable than those
which we have given. As, in their works, those learned men had no other aim
but to render the manuscripts they described thoroughly well known, we could
not have been more laconic without failing in our object, which is exactly
similar to theirs. Such descriptions, which alone can lead to a correct appre-
ciation of the value of each manuscript, appear still more necessary in a sale
catalogue than in a descriptive catalogue intended solely for the learned.

The Collection which is now offered to the public is remarkable on more
accounts than one. Independently of the large number of volumes, the
materials of which it is composed will perhaps attract the attention of con-
noisseurs. All countries, all ages, and every branch of human learning are
represented in it. Ancient manuscripts which may be termed paleograpliic,
Latin classics, Greek and Oriental manuscripts, History, Science, Autographs,
and the old French and Italian poets, constitute its principal classes.

In any library a collection of more than seventy Latin manuscripts
older than the twelfth century would be remarkable. The printed catalogues
of many celebrated libraries, such as for instance that of Saint Mark
at Venice, of the Malatestiana at Ravenna, and the Royal Library of Turin,
are far from containing so large a number.* Manuscripts like these,
which constitute the base of all paleographic science, and of which the
savants who occupy themselves with these studies have always sought to
give us as many facsimiles as possible, are becoming every day more rare
and more difficult to find. They represent the first authentic monuments
of modern knowledge. They are the links of the chain which connects us
with antiquity, and amateurs will find in our collection some of those primi-
tive monuments of the seventh and eighth centuriesf in which may still
be perceived traces of the efforts which at every step of the social ladder,

* According to the list which we have drawn up from the Catalogues of these different libra-
ries, compiled by Pasini and Rivautella, Zanettiand Bongiovanni, and Muccioli, the Turin library-
contained only ten manuscripts older than the twelfth century; the Malatesta only seven
and in the great library of Saint Mark there was but a single Latin manuscript (of the eleventh
century) of an earlier date than the twelfth century. The number of manuscripts of the twelfth
century, contained in these libraries, was also very limited. We speak of course of the time
when these large and celebrated catalogues appeared.

t See Nos. 139, 298, 495, 1111, and 1112 in the present Catalogue.

INTRODUCTION. ix

aneantis. C'est un motif de plus pour publier, toutes les fois que cela est
possible, la description detaillee de ceux que le temps a epargnes ; surtout de
ceux qui, par leur antiquite ou par les matieres dont ils traitent, semblent
appeler un examen particulier. Si parfois les descriptions contenues dans ce
catalogue pouvaient sembler trop eteudues, nous prendrions la liberty de rap-
peler que dans les plus grands et les plus celebres catalogues, dans les catalogues
analytiques, publics par exemple par Bandini, ou par Montfaucon, les descrip-
tions, meme de volumes comparati cement peu interessants, sont beaucoup plus
considerables encore que celles que nous donnons. Comme dans leurs ouvrages
ces grands erudits, n'ont eu d'autre objet que de faire bien connaitre les manu-
scrits qu'ils decrivaient, nous n'aurions pu etre plus laconiques sans manquer
notre but qui etait parfaitement semblable au leur. De telles descriptions,
qui seules peuvent conduire a une juste appreciation de la valeur de chaque
manuscrit, semblent encore plus necessaires dans un catalogue de vente que
dans un catalogue descriptif, destine purement aux erudits.

La Collection qui est offerte aujourd'hui au public se fait remarquer a
plusieurs titres. Independamment du nombre des volumes, par sa com-
position elle appellera peut etre l'attention des connaisseurs. Tous les pays,
toutes les epoques, toutes les branches des connaissances humaines y sont
represented . Les manuscrit s anciens et qu'on pourrait appeler paleogra-
phiques, les classiques Latins, les manuscrits Grecs et Orientaux, l'Histoire,
les Sciences, les autographes, les anciens poetes Italiens et Francais en forment
les classes principales.

Dans toute bibliotheque une reunion de plus de 70 manuscrits latins
anterieurs au XII e siecle serait remarquee. Les catalogues imprimes de
plusieurs bibliotheques celebres, par exemple celle de Saint Marc de
Venise, la Malatestiana de Ravenne, et la Bibliotheque Royale de Turin,
sont loin d'en contenir un aussi grand nombre.* De tels manuscrits qui
forment la base de toute science paleographique, et dont les savants qui s'oc-
cupent de ces etudes se sont toujours appliques a nous donner le plus de
facsimiles possible, deviennent tous les jours plus rares et plus difficiles a
rencontrer. Ils representent pour nous les premiers monuments authentiques
du savoir moderne. Ce sont les anneaux de la chaine qui nous rattache a
1' antiquite, et les amateurs trouveront dans notre collection quelques uns de
ces monuments primitifs du YIP: et du VIII.e siecle t dans lesquels on
apercoit encore les traces des efforts qu'a tous les degres de l'echelle sociale

* D'apres le releve" que nous avons fait sur les catalogues de ces diverses bibliotheques
rediges par Pasini et Rivautella, par Zanetti et Bongiovauni, et par Muccioli, la Bibliotheque de
Turin ne contenait que dix manuscrits anterieurs au douzieme siecle ; la Bibliotheque Malatesta
que sept et il n'y avait dans la grande Bibliotheque de Saint Marc qu'un seul manuscrit latin
(du XI? siecle) anterieur au douzieme siecle. Le nombre des manuscrits du XII. siecle contenus
dans ces Bibliotheques etait aussi tres restreint. Nous parlons toujours du moment ou ces
grands et celebres catalogues out paru.

f Voyez les Nos. 139, 298, 495, 1111, 1112, du Catalogue.

x INTRODUCTION.

men of elevated minds never ceased making to unite the barbarian with the
Roman and Christian worlds, and to open the road on which Charlemagne
was soon to enter, forcing all Europe to follow him.

To write in those barbarous ages was not only a difficulty, but sometimes
even a crime. The towns in which several centuries later Petrarch could
find no ink to copy a precious fragment of Roman antiquity which he
had discovered, were, in the time of the Merovingians, even more denuded
of everything necessary to the writer. Parchment, stylus, or pen, and
ink, — all was at once wanting to him who devoted himself to study, and
there was no lack of danger at an epoch in which those who allowed them-
selves to trace geometrical or astronomical figures were accused of magic.
To copy manuscripts, and thus endeavour to preserve the greatest possible
number of ancient monuments, was to preserve and multiply the germs
which in their later development were to contribute most powerfully to rear
again the social edifice. Thus we find Charlemagne, who occupied himself
with so many grand undertakings at once, bestowing particular attention
on manuscripts, causing copies to be made, interesting himself in the form
of the writing, declaring war with the barbarous characters (which were an
additional obstacle to the amalgamation of the ancient and modern civili-
zation), and restoring, with only slight differences, the old Roman hand-
writing, as if to establish another link between his people and the Romans,
to whom in so many other respects he strove to assimilate them. What
Charlemagne had effected in Prance, Alfred the Great soon accomplished in
England, with a similar success and by the same methods. This is what
rendered the work durable ; for the fifty-three expeditions of Charlemagne to
the North as well as to the South of Europe, and the long struggles of
Alfred against the Danes, would have been only the conflict of barbarians
with other barbarians, if in giving to their people the ephemeral prestige
of victory, these great men had not known how to secure to them also the less
transitory superiority of a more advanced civilization.

Let who will follow the sanguinary conquests of those scourges of
the human race, who, if they had completely succeeded in their work
of destruction, would have annihilated civilization, broken off all bonds
between the different nations of the West, in order, at the utmost, to raise in
deserts capitals destined, like Karakorum at a later date, to dazzle the
world for an instant, and then all at once to disappear without leaving a trace
behind. Por ourselves, all our sympathies are with those more modest and use-
ful heroes, who have marched to the moral conquest of the barbarians ; with
those ancient missionaries of civilization who, indefatigable in their labours,
have restored to Europe the unity and superiority which Rome had bestowed
on it, and which the Latin church has so powerfully contributed to re-establish.
Privations, sufferings, dangers, martyrdom, nothing was spared them, but

INTRODUCTION. xi

les hommes d'un esprit eleve" ne cessaient de faire pour rattacher au monde
Eomain et Chretien le monde barbare, et pour ouvrir la voie dans laquelle
Charlemagne devait entrer bientot en forcant l'Europe entiere a le suivre.

Ecrire dans ces temps n'etait pas seulement une difficulty c'etait
parfois un crime. Les villes ou plusieurs siecles plus tard le Petrarque ne
trouvait pas d'encre pour copier un fragment precieux de l'antiquite latme
qu'il venait de decouvrir etaient, da temps des Merovingiens, encore plus
denuees de tout ce qu'il fallait a l'ecrivain. Parchemin, stylet ou plume, encre,
tout faisait defaut a la fois a celui qui se vouait a l'etude, et les dangers
ne manquaient pas non plus pour ceux qu'on accusait de magie lorsqu'ils
se permettaient de tracer des figures de geometrie ou d'astronomie. Copier
des manuscrits, tacher par ce moyen de conserver le plus grand nombre
possible d'anciens monuments, c'etait garder et multiplier les germes qui, en
se developpant plus tard, devaient contribuer le plus a relever l'edifice social.
Aussi voyons nous Charlemagne, qui s'occupait de tant de grandes choses a la
fois, porter une attention particuliere vers les manuscrits, en faire faire des
copies, s'interesser a la forme de l'ecriture et, rapprochant, en cela comme en
d'autres choses, ses peuples des Eomains, declarer la guerre a l'ecriture
barbare (qui etait un obstacle de plus a l'almagamation de l'ancienne civili-
sation avec la moderne) et ramener, avec de legeres differences seulement,
l'ancienne ecriture romaine, comme pour etablir un lien de plus. Ce que
Charlemagne avait fait en Prance, Alfred le Grand le fit bientot en Angleterre,
avec le meme succes et par les memes moyens. C'est la ce qui rendit leur
ceuvre durable ; car, les cinquante trois expeditions de Charlemagne au Nord
comme au Sud de l'Europe, et les longues luttes du roi Alfred avec les
Danois, n'auraient ete que des chocs de barbares contre d'autres barbares si,
en donnant a leurs peuples le prestige passager de la victoire, ces grands
hommes n'avaient su leur assurer aussi l'ascendant moins ephemere d'une
civilisation plus avancee.

Suive qui voudra les conquetes sanglantes de ces fleaux de l'humanite
qui, s'ils avaient complement reussi dans leur ceuvre de destruction, auraient
aneanti la civilisation, rompu tout lien entre le^diverses nations de l'Occi-
dent pour elever, tout au plus, dans des deserts des capitales destinees,
comme plus tard Karakoroum, a eblouir un instant le monde, puis a disparaitre
tout a coup sans laisser de traces. Quant a nous, toutes nos sympathies sont
pour ces plus modestes et plus utiles heros, qui ont marche a la conquete
morale des barbares; pour ces anciens missionnaires de la civilisation qui,
infatigables dans leurs travaux, ont rendu a, l'Europe 1'unite et la suprematie
que Eome lui avait donnees, et que l'Eglise latine a tant contribue a relever.
Privations, souftrances, dangers, martyre rien ne leur fut epargne, mais rien ne
les decourageait, soutenus qu'ils etaient par le zele religieux et par l'amour des
lumieres, travaillant a la fois pour la cause du Christianisme et pour celle de
l'ancienne civilisation. Les traces de cette double action, faible, inegale, inter-

xii INTRODUCTION.

nothing could discourage them, sustained as they were by religious zeal and
by the love of enlightenment, from striving at the same time for the cause of
Christianity and that of ancient civilization. The living traces of this two-fold
action, feeble, unequal, and intermittent no doubt, but never entirely extin-
guished, are to be found in the manuscripts which these indefatigable men
copied with their own hands.

Unless consecrated by an illustrious martyrdom, the names of these pious
scribes have almost all disappeared, but there remain some which all true
friends of literature endeavour to preserve, and of which it would be
interesting to form a complete list. We are struck with observing how
along with their humility, their self-denial, their submission to the church
and to their superiors, the love of letters, the love of their book, and the
sentiment of the true bibliophile peeps out in the notices which they inscribed
on their manuscripts. Who would not feel emotion at the perusal of what
that poor Eegimbertus*, whose name was completely forgotten till now,
wrote at the commencement of a volume which he had copied in the time
of Charlemagne ? This manuscript would be of inestimable value had it
come down to us in an entire state, for besides primitive monuments of
the Teutonic languages, Latin poems, and chronicles which appear to have
been lost, it contained a work of Pliny, the very title of which was
unknown to us ! Regimbertus loves his book, he can scarcely bring him-
self to part with it, he requests his brethren to preserve it carefully, and
not lend it until a pledge has been given for its restitution, and in a long in-
scription at the commencement, he describes minutely the precautions which
are to be taken that the volume may not be injured. Along with the Kegim-
bertus, with the Otloh, one of whose autograph and unknown works will be
found in this collectionf, with the Hermannus of Cluny, who in the tenth cen-
tury shewed himself an admirable caligrapher and a skilful draughtsman^, and
other modest friends of literature whom this Catalogue will introduce, we wish
we were able to register the names of those superior minds who, in the
ninth century in Germany, used to read Homer and Virgil, and of whom
Ermenricus of Elwangen complains in a work, a manuscript of which, almost
cotemporary with the author, will be found in the present Catalogue§. This
fact alone shows us what attractions ancient literature possessed for these pri-
mitive people who, when scarcely issued from their forests, shewed themselves
capable of admiring the finest chefs-d'oeuvre of antiquity.

It is to this taste for ancient letters, often compelled to hide itself in the
shade, but perhaps less rare than is now imagined, that we owe the preserva-
tion of so many fine monuments of antiquity, that is to say of all that which
has elevated taste, letters and intelligence in Europe. These precious
monuments would have infallibly perished, if in the barbarous ages no

* See No. 1112 f See No. 491. % See No. 851. § See No. 1103.

INTRODUCTION. xiii

mittente sans doute, mais qui ne s'eteint jamais entierement, se retrouvcnt
encore pour ainsi dire toutes vivantes dans les livres que ces hommes infatigables
copiaient de leur mains. Quand ils n'ont pas ete sanctifies par un martyre
eclatant, les noms de ces pieux copistes out presque tous disparu. II en
reste quelques uns, que les veritables amis des lettres s'efforcent de con-
server, et dont il serait interessant de former une liste complete. On est
frappe de voir combien a cote de leur humilite, de leur abnegation, de leur
soumission a l'eglise et a leurs superieurs, l'amour des lettres, l'amour du
livre, le sentiment du veritable bibliophile, perce dans les notes qu'ils inscri-
vaient sur leurs manuscrits. Qui ne serait touche en lisant ce que ce pauvre
Eegimbertus,* dont le nom etait reste completement oublie jusqu' ici, ecrivait
en tete d'un volume qu'il avait copie au temps de Charlemagne ? Ce manu-
scrit serait pour nous d'un prix inestimable s'il nous etait arrive tout entier,
car outre des monuments primitifs des langues germaniques, des poesies latines
et des chroniques qui paraissent avoir ete perdues, il contenait un ouvrage de
Pline dont le titre meme nous etait inconnu ! Eegiinbertus aime son livre, il
a de la peine a s'en separer ; il supplie ses freres de le garder precieusement,
de ne le preter qu'apres avoir re9u un gage pour la restitution et, dans une
longue inscription placee sur le titre, il decrit minutieusement les precau-
tions a prendre pour que ce volume ne soit pas endommage.

A cote de ce Eegimbertus, de cet Otloh dont on trouvera dans notre
collection un ouvrage autographe et inconnuf, de ce Hermann de Cluny qui,
au dixieme siecle, se montrait calligraphe admirable et habile dessinateurj, a
cote d'autres modestes amis des lettres que ce Catalogue fera connaitre, on
voudrait pouvoir enregistrer les noms de ces esprits superieurs qui, au neuvieme
siecle, lisaient en Allemagne Homere et Virgile, et dont Ermenric d'Elwangen
se plaint dans un ouvrage, dont nous avons decrit un manuscrit presque con-
temporain del'auteur§. Ce seul fait montre quel attrait les lettres anciennes
pouvaient ofl'rir a des peuples primitifs, qui, a, peine sortis de leurs forets, se
montraient capables d'admirer les plus beaux chefs-d'oeuvre de l'antiquite\

C'est a ce gout pour les lettres anciennes, force souvent de se tenir dans
l'ombre mais moins rare, peut-etre, qu'on ne l'imagine aujourd'hui, qu'est due la
conservation de tant de beaux monuments de l'antiquite ; c'est a dire de tout
ce qui a releve le gout, les lettres, et l'intelligence en Europe. Ces precieux
monuments auraient infailliblement peri si, dans les siecles barbares, il
ne se fut rencontre personne pour les comprendre et pour s'y interesser.
Que le sort de l'Eglise Occidentale, dont le centre etait a Eome, se fut
indissolublement attache a celui de la langue Latine le jour ou St. Jerome
avait traduit les livres saints en Latin ; que cette Eglise se soit vue forcee,
parfois meme sans s'en rendre compte, de travailler sans cesse a rapprocher
les peuples nouveaux de la civilisation Latine, c'est un fait trop connu pour

* Voyezle No. 1112.
f Voyez le No. 491 % Voyez le No. 851 § Voyez le No. 1103.

xiv INTRODUCTION.

one had been found to understand and take an interest in them. That the fate
of the Western Church, whose centre was Rome, was indissolubly bound up
with that of the Latin language from the day that St. Jerome translated
the sacred writings into Latin ; and that that church saw itself compelled,
sometimes even unconsciously, to labour unceasingly to assimilate the new
people to the Latin civilization, are facts too well remembered to require
dwelling on. What was effected for civilization by Italian influence and
the memory of ancient Rome, which seemed to offer a perfect model of
organization to the most illustrious barbarian chiefs, need not be mentioned.
The obstinate and efficacious resistance which the Gauls, preparing the way
for the triumphs of Charlemagne, unceasingly offered to the barbarians, and
the efforts of the Visigoths to raise civilization in Spain by giving it a form
which may be termed ecclesiastic, have been too frequently recorded to
require further comment. It is, however, perhaps somewhat less known,
especially in certain countries, that in the seventh and eighth centuries the
Latin Church, too much menaced at home by all kinds of enemies, particularly
the Langobards and Arabs, to be able to occupy itself freely with what was
passing on the borders of the Rhine, saw all at once auxiliaries as efficient
as unhoped for, rise up in an island till then almost unheard of, — Ireland,
whose distance, as well as scanty riches, rendered it less exposed than the
rest of Europe to the attacks of the Barbarians.

We venture to hope that no one will attribute to us the ridiculous design
of sketching the history of modern Europe from a manuscript point of view ;
but without entering on general questions, and confining ourselves to this
Catalogue, we may be permitted to observe that it is especially in manuscripts
that existing traces are to be found of the labours and influence of those
ancient missionaries, of those pious Irishmen, of those learned Anglo-Saxons,
who, like Saint Columban, Saint Kilian, Saint Sola, Saint Burkard, Alcuin,
and so many others, carried to the continent their knowledge and their zeal,
and who, wherever they established themselves, nay even where they only
passed, have left in caligraphy, in the arts of design, and even in literature
itself the imprint of their influence.

At an epoch in which books were so rare, those vagrant bishops,
(vagantes) as they were then called, who unceasingly directed their course
towards the Rhine to convert the Germans, did not fail to carry pious books
with them, especially Breviaries, and Evangeliaria, which the disciples whom
they formed in these new countries naturally applied themselves afterwards
to copy and imitate. Thus one of the most ancient Irish manuscripts was
discovered in Pranconia in the tomb of Saint Kilian, and this precious relic,
stained with the blood of the martyr, is still cited as one of the earliest monu-
ments of Irish art. No doubt certain pious but narrow minds hoped to open
the door to ecclesiastical literature only, but the exclusion sometimes pro-
nounced against the classics was never general amongst writers who, even in

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qu'il soit besom de s'y arreter. Ce qu'ont fait pour la civilisation l'influence
Italienne et le souvenir de l'ancienne Rome, qui semblait presenter aux plus
illustres parmi les chefs barbares un modele parfait d'organisation, n'a pas
besoin d'etre rappele. La resistance opiniatre et efficace que, preparant les
triomphes de Charlemagne, les Gaules ne cesserent jamais d'offrir a la barbarie ;
les efforts des Visigoths pour relever la civilisation en Espagne en lui donnant une
forme qu'on pourrait appeler ecclesiastique, tout cela est bien connu. Ce qui
Test peut etre un peu moins, dans certains pays surtout, c'est qu'au septieme
et au huitieme siecle l'Eglise Latine, trop menacee chez elle par toutes sortes
d'ennemis, et particulierement par les Lombards et les Arabes, pour pouvoir
s'occuper librement de ce qui se passait sur les bords du Ehin, vit tout-a-
coup surgir des auxiliaires aussi efficaces qu'inesperes dans une ile jusqu'alors
presqu'ignoree l'lrlande, que son eloignement comme son peu de richesse
avait moins exposee que le reste de l'Europe aux incursions des Barbares.

Nous osons esperer qu'on voudra bien ne pas nous preter le projet
ridicule d'esquisser l'histoire de l'Europe moderne au point de vue des manu-
scrits. Mais sans aborder les questions generates et en nous renfermant dans
ce catalogue, on nous permettra de faire remarquer que c'est particulierement
dans les manuscrits que se rencontrent les traces encore vivantes des travaux
et de l'innuence de ces anciens missionnaires, de ces pieux Irlandais, de ces
savants Anglo-Saxons qui, comme Saint Colomban, Saint Kilian, Saint Sole,
Saint Burkard, Alcuin, et taut d'autres, allaient porter sur le continent leurs
connaissances et leur zele, et qui, partout ou ils se sont etablis, la, meme ou
ils n'ont fait que passer, ont laisse dans la calligraphie, dans les arts du
dessin, dans la litterature l'empreinte de leur influence. A une epoque
ou les livres etaient si rares, ces eveques vagantes, comme on les appelait
alors, qui sans cesse se dirigeaient vers le Rhin pour convertir les Germains,
ne manquaient pas d'apporter avec eux des livres pieux ; surtout des breviaires,
des evangeliaires, que les disciples formes dans ces nouvelles contrees s'appli-
quaient naturellement a reproduire et a imiter, Aussi est-ce un des plus
anciens manuscrits Irlandais qui fut decouvert en Eranconie dans le tom-
beau de Saint Kilian, et cette precieuse relique, tachee du sang du martyr,
est citee encore comme un des premiers monuments de l'art Irlandais.
A la verite certains esprits, pieux, mais etroits, espererent n'ouvrir la porte
qu' a la litterature ecclesiastique ; pourtant l'exclusion prononcee parfois contre
les anciens classiques ne fut jamais generale chez des ecrivains qui, meme
dans leur rudesse, se montraient toujours imitateurs de l'antiquite. Aussi
voyons nous que le celebre manuscrit de Tite Live de la Bibliotheque
Imperiale de Yienne avait appartenu a un moine Irlandais, Sutbert, un de ces
eveques voyageurs qui, vers la fin du septieme siecle, etaient alles precher
le Christianisme et (a ce qu'il parait) enseigner l'histoire Romaine en Belgique.
On ne saurait s'empecher de faire remarquer que le plus celebre de ces pieux
missionnaires, Saint Colomban, avait jete les fondements, en France a

xvi IOTKODUCTION.

their rudeness, always showed themselves imitators of antiquity. Thus we find
that the celebrated manuscript of Livy in the Imperial Library at Vienna,
belonged to Sutbert, an Irish monk, one of those wandering bishops who,
towards the close of the seventh century, had gone to preach Christianity,
and, as it would seem also, to teach Boman history in Belgium. One cannot
help remarking that the most celebrated of these pious missionaries,
Saint Columban, laid the foundations at Luxeuil in France, at St. Gall in
Switzerland, and at Bobio in Italy, of three monasteries which afterwards
became famous for their admirable manuscripts, in many of which the influ-
ence of the Irish and Anglo-Saxon schools can be recognised at a glance.
The library of St. Gall is too celebrated to require mention. The Bobio manu-
scripts are known everywhere by the discoveries which have been made in the
palimpsests which once belonged to that collection. As for the manuscripts
of Luxeuil, they have been dispersed, but the specimens of them which are to
be found in this Catalogue*, joined to what has been published on the subject
by Mabillon, O'Connor and others, prove unanswerably that in this Abbey as
well as in that of Stavelot in Belgiumf, and other ancient monasteries on
the continent, a school of writing and miniature had sprung up as remark-
able for the beauty of its caligraphy, as for the care applied to reproduce the
forms of the Anglo-Irish schools.

The descriptions which will be found in the Catalogue are only intended
to call attention to facts which merit further development. The beauty of the
characters of certain manuscripts is so remarkable that we do not believe that
either in the "Nouveau traite de Diplomatique," by the Benedictins, in the work
of Mabillon, or in other works still more sumptuous, which have been recently
published, there are to be found finer examples of Uncial, Eustic, or Carlo-
vingian characters than those which are to be seen in the two Evangeliaria
of the ninth century, and the Saint Cyprian of the same epoch, which are
described under Nos. 299, 356 and 357 in the present Catalogue. The
ancient ornaments and the large initial letters also deserve particular
attention. Of these, the figures of the Canons in a style which may be
called Pompeian, as well as the large Saint Mark of the Italian school,
which are to be seen in the two Evangeliaria, cited above, are to be
placed in the first rank. The Josephus of the tenth or eleventh century,
with its initial letters, twelve or fifteen inches long J, the Bible of Juste-
mont§, as well as other biblical manuscripts, several Fathers of the Church
of the seventh and eighth centuries||, and the JPassionalia, filled with beau-
tiful figures and magnificent initials, particularly recommend themselves to
attention. The Evangeliarium of Valbeck (No. 358) executed towards the
eleventh century, is remarkable for its drawings in the style of the Bible
of Charles the Bald, the more especially as in them the different processes

* See Nos. 139, 356, 495, 683, 891, &c. f See Nos. 496, 1115, &c.

X See No. 554. § See No. 160. || See Nos. 139 and 298.

INTRODUCTION. xvii

Luxeuil, a St. Gall en Suisse, et a Bobio en Italie, de trois monasteres
qui sont devenus celebres par leurs admirables manuscrits, dans plusieurs
desquels on peut reconnaitre a, premiere vue l'innuence Irlandaise et l'ecole
Anglo-Saxonne. La Bibliotlieque de St. Gall est trop renommee pour qu'on
doive en parler ici. Les manuscrits de Bobio sont connus partout, par les
decouvertes quiont ete faites dans les palimpsestes sortis de cette bibliotlieque.
Quant aux manuscrits de Luxeuil ils ont ete disperses, mais les specimens
que Ton en trouve dans notre catalogue*, venant se joindre a ce qui a ete
publie a, ce sujet par Mabillon, par O'Connor, et par d'autres savans, prou-
vent, sans replique, que dans cette AJbbaye, comme dans l'Abbaye de Stavelot
en Belgiquef , et dans d'autres anciens monasteres du continent, il s'etait forme
une ecole d'ecriture et de miniature, aussi remarquable par la beaute calligra-
pbique que par le soin avec lequel on s'y appliquait a reproduire les formes
de l'ecole Anglo-Irlandaise.

Les descriptions que Ton trouvera dans le Catalogue ne sauraientqu'appeler
l'attention sur des faits qui meriteraient de plus grands developpements. La
beaute des caracteres de certains manuscrits est remarquable et nous ne
croyons pas que dans le JVouvecm traite de Diplomatique par les Benedictins,
dans Touvrage de Mabillon, ou dans d'autres livres plus somptueux publies
recemment, il existe des exemples de lettres onciales, rustiques, ou Carolines,
plus belles que celles qu'on voit dans les deux Evangeliaires du neuvieme siecle
ou dansle Saint Cyprien de la meme epoque qui sont decrits sous les Nos. 299,
356 et 357 de ce Catalogue. Les anciens ornementset les grandes lettres initiales
semblent meriter aussi un interet particulier. En ce genre les figures des
Canons, en style qu'on pourrait appeler Pompeien, ainsi que le grand Saint Marc
d' ecole Italienne, qui se voyent dans les deux Evangeliaires que Ton vient de
citer, se placent en premiere ligne. Le Josephe du dixieme au onzieme siecle
avec ses initiales de douze a quinze ponces de haut J, la Bible de Justemont §,
ainsi que d*autres manuscrits bibliques, des peres de l'eglise du septieme
et du huitieme siecle ||, des Passionnaires remplis de belles figures et
d'initiales magnifiques, se recommandent d'eux memes a l'attention. On
remarquera surtout l'Evangeliaire de Valbeck (No. 358) execute vers le onzieme
siecle avec des figures dans le style de la Bible de Charles le Chauve, et dans
lequel les divers procedes des artistes de cette epoque se montrent a decouvert.
Un petit bijou du dixieme au onzieme siecle (No. 359) avec des miniatures
Byzantines, aussi admirable par la beaute de 1'ecriture et la finesse des
ornements en or et en argent, que par son etonnante conservation, n'a pas
besoin d'une plus grande description. C'est en son genre un modele parfait
que son petit format et son ancienne reliure rendent encore plus elegant
et plus precieux. Pour les amateurs de Miniatures la collection dont nous

* Voyez les Nos 139, 356, 495, 683, 891, etc.
f Voyez les Nos. 496, 1115, etc. % Voyez le No. 554. § Voyez le No. 160

|| Voyez les Nos. 139 et 298.
c

wiii INTRODUCTION.

employed by the artists of that period are plainly shown. One charming bijou,
of the tenth or eleventh century (No. 359), with its Byzantine miniatures, as
admirable for the beauty of the writing and the fineness of the gold and silver
ornaments, as for its wonderful state of preservation, needs not a longer
description. It is a perfect model of its kind, and rendered still more elegant
and valuable by its small size and ancient binding. To amateurs of miniatures,
the collection of which we publish the description offers remarkable specimens
of every style and age. It embraces Greek, Roman, Persian, Hindoo, and
Chinese art, and even that of Armenia (No. 355) will be found in it ; whilst
the artists of Kashmir*, a country not less wonderful for a school of cali-
graphy, almost unknown in Europe, than for its elegant fabrics, which all the
world admires, encounter here the delineators of those Jewish miuiaturesf
which are of such extreme rarity, and which show that there must have been a
Jewish art as well as a Jewish science and literature. All this clusters
around one of those inimitable chefs-d' ceuvre J which Italian art produced
in the time of Leo X.

But it is not only art which shines in this collection. History, science
and literature, properly so called, play in it a part so considerable that the
mere abridgment of the new and unexpected results presented by the study
of these manuscripts would almost fill a volume of itself.

A single instance will suffice to prove this. Among the questions
which the historians of modern literature have had to discuss, there is none
more important than that of determining exactly in what measure and in
what degree the knowledge of letters and of the Greek language, or at
least of the Greek alphabet, had been preserved in the North and West
of Europe, and of estimating correctly the part which was played by
Greek literature, and the influence which it was able to exert not only
before the Turkish invasion had driven the learned Greeks into Italy
but even before the Arabs, by their translations, had bestowed the Greek
sciences on the Neo-Latins. Manuscripts in Greek characters, written
in the West before the revival of learning, are rare, and have at all
times been the object of the researches of the most learned paleographers,
who had remarked that in certain authors, the Grammarians for example,
it was customary to write the Greek quotations in Roman charac-
ters §, so feeble did the knowledge of Greek literature appear to have
become. Our Catalogue || offers in this respect some striking examples,
which must be added to the proofs already possessed of the fact that
the Greek language, which was cultivated, by the elite only it is true,
even in the midst of the thickest darkness, was less unknown in the West
than has perhaps been imagined. But without entering into the general
question, there is one point on which we deem it necessary to touch more

* See Nos. 157, 476 and 587. f See Nos. 477 and 522.

% See No. 1135. § See No. 833. || See Nos. 174, 229, 486, 744, &c.

INTRODUCTION. xix

publions la description offre de remarquables specimens de tous les styles et
de tous les temps ; l'art Grec et Romain, l'art Persan, l'art Indou et Chinois,
Tart Armenien (No. 355), s'y trouvent rassembles et les artistes du Cachemire*,
pays non moins etonnant par une ecole de Calligrapbie presque inconnue en
Europe, que par ces elegans tissus que tout le monde admire, s'y reucontrent
avec les auteurs de ces miniatures Juivesf, qui sont d'une rarete si excessive
et qui montrent qu'il y a eu un art juif comme il y a eu une science et une
litterature Juives. Tout cela vient se grouper autour d'un de ces inimitables
chefs d'eeuvre J que l'art Italien savait enfanter du temps de L6on X.

Mais ce n'est pas l'art seul qui brille dans cette collection. L'histoire,
les sciences, la litterature proprement dite y jouent un role considerable,
et le resume seul des resuitats nouveaux et inattendus que l'etude de ces
manuscrits pourrait offrir remplirait presque un volume.

Un seul exemple sufura pour le prouver. Parmi les questions que les
historiens de la litterature moderne ont eu a traiter, il n'en est guere de
plus importante que celle de determiner au juste dans quelle mesure et a quel
degre la connaissance des lettres et de la langue Grecque, ou du moins celle
de 1' alphabet Grec, avait pu se conserver dans le Nord et 1' Occident
de 1' Europe ; d'apprecier le role que la litterature Grecque y a pu jouer,
rinfluence qu'elle y a pu exercer non seulement avant que 1'iiivasion Turque
eut refoule les savants Grecs en Italie, mais avant meme que, par les
traductions qu'ils avaient faites, les Arabes eussent rendu les Sciences
de la Grece aux peuples Neo-Latins. Les manuscrits en caracteres Grecs, ecrits
en Occident avant la renaissance des lettres, sont rares ; de tout temps ils
ont ete l'objet des recherches des plus savants paleographes qui avaient ret
marque que pour certains auteurs, pour les grammairiens par exemple, on avait
pris l'liabitude d'ecrire les citations Grecques en caracteres Eomain s§, tant la
connaissance des lettres Grecques semblait s'etre affaiblie. Notre Cata-
logue || offre a ce sujet des exemples frappants qui devront s'ajouter aux
preuves que l'on avait deja de ce fait : que, meme au milieu des plus epaisscs
tenebres, la langue Grecque, cultivee seulement il est vrai par des homines
d'elite, a ete moins ignoree en Occident qu'on ne l'a peut-etre suppose ;
mais sans entrer dans la question generale, il y a un point que nous
devons toucher un peu plus particulierement. Eien n'a etc plus connu et
plus repete que cette assertion de Matthieu Paris attribuant a Jean Basing
l'honneur d'avoir rapporte, au milieu du treizieme siecle, d'Athenes en
Angleterre, les chiffres et l'arithmetique litterale des Grecs, qui offrait tant
d'avantages sur l'ecriture arithmetique des Eomains. A cette assertion
si positive, repetee par les plus illustres ecrivains, plusieurs manuscrits de
notre Catalogue opposent un dementi formel. Comment supposer en effet

* Voyez les Nos. 157, 47G, 587. f Voyez les Nos. 477 et 522.

X Voyez le No. 1135. § Voyez le No. 833.

|| Voyez les Nos. 174, 229, 486, 744, etc.
c 2

ix INTRODUCTION.

particularly. No story is better known or has been more frequently repeated,
than the assertion of Matthew Paris, which attributes to John Easing the
honour of having, in the middle of the thirteenth century, brought from
Athens to England the figures and alphabetical arithmetic of the Greeks,
which possessed so many advantages over the arithmetical system of the
Romans. To this assertion, so positively repeated by the most illustrious
writers, several manuscripts in our Catalogue oppose a formal denial. How,
in fact, can it be supposed that there was any necessity to seek in Greece for
Greek figures, when these same figures were used in the North and "West of
Europe in manuscripts written under Anglo-Saxon influence, and in what is
generally called the Irish school ? That they were not universally known is
possible, and even probable, but that in the matter of Greek figures this
ancient English traveller introduced anything unknown to the West, is an
assertion which those who have seen certain manuscripts described in this
Catalogue * will probably not care to repeat.

The origin of our numerical system, with which it has been sought to
associate the travels of John Basing, is one of the questions which have been
most eagerly disputed by the learned, who have devoted themselves to the
history of science. We have been careful to indicate in our Catalogue the
facts wrhich may serve to clear up this point, so interesting in the history of
the progress of the human mind. Among the documents of a similar character
with which this Catalogue abounds, and some of which, entirely unknown,
are connected with the ancient history of the University of Oxfordf, there is
one which will probably attract the attention of the learned, because it is,
as far as is at present known, the oldest manuscript with a date which
contains what are called Arabic numerals, and the system of 'position. A
remarkable fact is, that everything proves this volume to have been written
in England J.

Astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, mechanics, naval construction, medi-
cine, the occult sciences, cosmography, valuable Portulani which relate both
to the ancient geography of America and that of Russia§, are all things which
ought to be met with in a collection, when the owner has devoted his life to
the study of the sciences. We will limit ourselves to pointing out three
manuscripts of this kind, which appear worthy of some attention. One is a
collection of eighty-four autograph letters of Leibnitz ||. The second is a
volume^", also autograph, by which we find the illustrious Kepler giving lessons
on every branch of mathematics, and, according to his custom, invoking the aid
of philosophy and poetry to celebrate the marvels of creation. The third will
appear, perhaps, still more precious. It is the genuine treatise on the sphere,
written by the hand of Galileo, in its original form**. In this work, where
Galileo speaks of his own discoveries, he does not seek to irritate the Court

* See Nos. 229, 298, 299, 760, 1208, &c. f See No- 664-

% See No. 665. § See Nos. 825, 826, 827, 1164, etc.

|| See No. 1142. ^ See No. 573. ** See No 399.

INTRODUCTION.

xxi

qu'on fut reduit a aller chercher en Grece les chiffres Grecs lorsque, au Nord
et a 1' Occident de 1' Europe, ces chiffres £taient souvent employe's dans des
nianuscrits traces sous 1' influence Anglo-Saxonne, et dans cette ecole que
generalement on appelle Irlandaise ? Qu'ils ne fussent pas connus partout,
c'est possible et meme probable, inais qu'en fait de chiffres Grecs cet ancien
voyageur Anglais eut rapporte quelque chose d'inconnu en Occident, c'est
line assertion que probablement ceux qui auront vu certains nianuscrits decrits
dans ce Catalogue* ne voudront plus repeter.

L'origine de notre systeme de numeration, auquel on a voulu rattacher
le voyage de Jean Basing, est une des questions les plus vivement debattues
par les savants qui se sont vouea a l'histoire des sciences. On a eu soin de
signaler dans ce Catalogue les faits qui peuvent servir a eclaircir ce point si
interessant dans l'histoire des progres de l'esprit humain. Parmi les documents
du meme genre dont cette collection abonde, et dont quelques uns tout a, fait
inconnus, se rattachenta l'ancienne histoire de l'Universite d'Oxfordf, il y en
a un qui, peut etre, attirera l'attention des savans, car c'est le plus ancien
manuscrit avec date, jusqu' a present connu, qui contienne les chiffres qu'on a
appeles arabes et le systeme de position. Chose remarquable tout annonce
que ce volume a et6 ecrit en Angleterre.J

Astronomie, geometrie, arithmetique, mecanique, constructions navales,
medecine, sciences occultes, cosmographie, portulans precieux qui interessent
a la fois la geographie ancienne de l'Amerique et celle de la Russie§, tout
cela devait naturellement se rencontrer dans une collection dont l'auteur a
voue sa vie a l'etude des sciences. Nous nous bornerons a signaler en
ce genre trois manuscrits qui semblent dignes de quelque attention. L'un
est une collection de quatrevingt quatre lettres autographes de Leibnitz || ;
dans un autre volume^", autographe aussi, nous voyons l'illustre Kepler
donnant des le9ons sur toutes les parties des mathematiques, et appelant,
comme de coutume, a, son aide la philosophic et la poesie pour celebrer
les merveilles de la creation. Le troisieme ## semblera peut etre, encore plus
precieux. C'est le veritable traite de la sphere, ecrit de la main de Galilee,
et tel qu'il l'avait concu lui-meme. Dans cet ouvrage oil Galilee parle de ses
propres decouvertes, il ne cherche pas a irriter la cour de Rome, mais il ne fait
a la philosophie peripateticienne aucune de ces concessions, que Ton trouve
dans le traite apocryphe de la sphere, publie a Rome par le pere Davisi,
sous le nom de Galilee, peu de temps apres la mort de cet homme celebre.
Ces deux ouvrages de Kepler et de Galilee, jusqu'a present totalement
inconnus, seraient dignes d'enrichir les nouvelles editions que l'ltalie et
rAllemagne ont entreprises recemment comme une sorte de monument
expiatoire envers deux hommes qui ont tant fait pour la gloire de leurs pays.

* Voyez les Nos. 229, 298, 299, 760, 1028, etc. f Voyez le No. 664.

X Voyez le No. 665. § Voyez les Nos. 825, 826, 827, 1164, etc.

j| Voyes le No. 1142. f Voyez le No. 573. ** Voyez le No. 399.

xxii INTRODUCTION.

of Rome, but he makes none of those concessions to the peripatetic philo-
sophy, which are found in the apocryphal treatise on the sphere, pub-
lished at Rome by Father Davisi under the name of Galileo, a short time
after the death of that illustrious man. These two works of Kepler and
Gralileo, hitherto totally unknown, are worthy to enrich the new editions
which Italy and Germany have recently undertaken as a sort of expiatory
monuments to two men who have done so much for the glory of their
country.

Although Autographs are to form a distinct class and a separate Cata-
logue, a number of them deserving attention will be found herein. Along with
some isolated letters, inserted either to afford points of comparison with auto-
graph manuscripts without signatures, or because they contained interesting
historical documents, there will be found also collections which, as a whole, may
offer a literary or historical interest, and especially some volumes written or
containing notes by celebrated men. To this last-named class belong the
autograph manuscripts of Augurellus, Hermolaus Barbaras, Porta, Guarini,
Baruffaldi, D'Alembert, Clairaut, Mile. Germain, Abel, the collections of
documents which belonged to Charles of Orleans, and other volumes with
notes by Politian, Aldus Manutius, G. Manetti, the Great Conde, Apostolo
Zeno, &c. The eye will be arrested also by the manuscripts of Tasso, of
which some are unpublished, and others have been printed in a shape which
renders them barely recognizable. These works must still await one of those
critical editions too exclusively consecrated hitherto to the writers of antiquity.

It would, however, be an error to suppose that the ancient classics (the
objects of so much labour, and which the greatest part of even educated men
read without knowing what trouble it has cost to present the in with a text, we
will not say pure, but sufficiently intelligible) have been printed as they were
left by the authors, and that everything concerning them has been already told.
Independently of works like the Polyhistor of Solinus,* for example, which
from the first, in consequence of an indiscretion, appeared in a form different
to that which the author afterwards gave it ; independently of those books
which, like the history of Eutropius have been restored by modern hands,
and of which several texts are in existence, which do not accord with one
another f ; independently, in short, of those works which have been dis-
figured for political reasons, and of those Chronicles which, like that of
Castaldo, by editors have been mutilated for a bribe J, the ancient writers are
far from having reached us in their integrity, and far also from having
been printed originally as they were found in manuscript.

In the early times of printing, the ardour with which intellectual minds
applied themselves to ancient literature was so lively and so universal, that
the printers besought learned men. for the writings of antiquity, even those on
scientific or abstruse subjects, with an eagerness equal to that with which in

* Sec Xos. 946-94S. f See No. 353. $ See Nos. 230 and 712.

INTRODUCTION. xxiii

Bien que les Autographes doivent former une classe particuliere et un
Catalogue a, part, ou trouvera deja en ce genre, un grand nombre d'articles
dignes de quelque interet. A cote de certaines lettres isolees, qu'on a mises
ici soit pour offrir un point de comparaison avee des manuscrits autographes
sans signature, soit parce qu'elles contenaieut des documents liistoriques
interessants, on verra des recueils qui, par leur ensemble, presentent un
interet litteraire ou historique, et surtout des volumes ecrits ou annotes par
des hommes celebres. A cette derniere classe appartiennent les manuscrits
autographes d'Augurellus, d'llermolaus Barbarus, de Porta, de Guarini,
de Baruffaldi, de d'Alembert, de Clairaut, de Melle. Germain, d'Abel, ainsi
que les collections de documents ayant appartenu a Charles d' Orleans, et
d'autres volumes annotes par le Politien, par Aide Manuce, par G. Manetti,
par le Grand Conde, par Apostolo Zeno, etc. L'ceil s'arretera sur les manu-
scrits du Tasse dont quelques uns sont inedits et dont les autres ont etc
publies de fa9on a les rendre tout-a-fait meconnoissables. Ces ouvrages
attendent encore une de ces editions critiques jusqu' ici trop exclusivement
consacrees aux ecrivains de l'antiquite.

On serait pourtant dans l'erreur si Ton supposait que les ancieus
classiques, objet de tant de travaux, et que la plupart meme des gens
instruits lisent sans savoir ce qu'il en a coute pour leur offrir un textc,-
nous ne dirons pas meme pur, mais sufnsamment intelligible, aient ete im-
primes tels que les auteurs nous les ont laisses, et que tout soit dit sur
leurcompte. Independamment des ouvrages, tels que le Polyhistor de Solin*
par exemple, qui des l'origine, par l'effet d'une indiscretion, out paru sous une
forme ditferente de celle que l'auteur leur a donnee plus tard ; independamment
de ces livres, tels que l'histoire d'JSutrope, qui ont ete refaits par d'autres
mains plus modernes et dont il existe plusieurs textes qui ne s'accordent
guere t ; independamment enfin de ces ouvrages, denatures pour des motifs
politiques, de ces chroniques que, comme celle de Castaldo, l'editeur a
mutilees a prix d'argentj, il s'en faut de beaucoup que les auteurs anciens
nous soient arrives dans leur integrity, et il s'en faut de beaucoup aussi qu'ils
aient ete d'abord imprimes tels qu'ils se trouvent dans les manuscrits.

Aux premiers temps de l'imprimerie l'ardeur avec laquelle tous les esprits
se portaient vers les etudes classiques etait si vive, si generale, que les im-
primeurs demandaient aux erudits des ecrits de l'antiquite, meme sur des
matieres scientifiques et abstruses, avec autant d'empressement qu'on en
mettrait aujourd'hui a demander des nouvelles a un romancier a la mode§.
Mais les manuscrits qui contenaieut ces ouvrages si recherches etaient loin
de se trouver en parfait etat ; souvent ils etaient incomplets, et les editions
qu'on a faites d'ouvrages ainsi mutiles, se sont parfois reproduites sans que
rien vint avertir le lecteur des lacunes que Tediteur avait eu interet a dissimuler.

* Voyez les Nos. 94G-94S. f Voye/. lc No. 353. J Voyez les Nos. 230 ct 712.

§ Voyez le No. 62.

xxiv INTRODUCTION.

the present day they would demand a tale from a popular novelist*. But the
manuscripts which contained these works so anxiously sought for were far
from being in a perfect condition. Oftentimes they were incomplete, and in
some of the editions of works thus mutilated, the text was reproduced without
any notice being given to the reader of lacunce, which it was the interest of
the editor to conceal. It is unnecessary to state that several of the most
celebrated monuments of antiquity, such as the poem of Lucretius, the
Comedies of Plautus, and the writings of Quintilian, were only known at first
in a very imperfect state, and that if the early printers obtained some of the
classics in a state fit for publication, it was to Petrarch, to Poggius, and other
celebrated men who were passionately attached to ancient literature, that
they were indebted. Other immortal works, those of Tacitus and Livy for
instance, were to remain incomplete, notwithstanding the successive dis-
coveries of fragments which have been made since the publication of the
first editions. Those who are familiar with manuscripts are well aware that
only a very few really different copies of the same author have reached us,
and that most of those in our possession are only reproductions, more or less
correct or faulty, of a small number of originals which for the most part
have disappeared. This is proved, for instance, by the manuscripts of
1 Terence in which the old subscription Calliopius recensuit has been so often
reproduced, and by those of Priscian, in which the very dates placed by the
ancient scribe Theodore at the end of each division of the work, to mark the
progress of his labour, have been copiedf- But without insisting farther on
the importance of collecting and preserving copies really different, derived from
original sources, and tracing how many changes have been introduced by the
crowd of grammarians, abbreviators and commentators of every kind who have
laboured at the ancient texts, not without leaving notable traces behind them,
let us only call to mind that the learned men who, on the revival of
learning, were so fortunate as to find in scattered leaves something
wherewith to complete works till then imperfect, could often only fill up
the laciuice, by inserting in a conjectural manner the fragments which they
had discovered. This is what seems to have been the case with the poem of
Lucretius, manuscripts of which are excessively rare, and of which a very
ancient one will be found in this Catalogue, partly a palimpsest, with new
various readings, rubrics and titles, which are not in the printed editions. In
this manuscript many passages also are arranged in an order differing from
that of the editions.

Another volume, the translation of Aratus by Germanicus, with an
ancient commentary, described in this Catalogue (No. 62), affords a still more
striking example of the way in which some ancient authors have been published
by editors who did not care to confess to the public that the only texts at
their disposal were imperfect or corrupt, and who by concealing the imperfec-

* Sec No. 62. f See No. 833.

INTBODUCTION. xxv

II n'est pas necessaire de rappeler que plusieurs des plus celebres monuments
de l'antiquite, tels que le poeme de Lucrece, les comedies de Plaute, les
ouvrages de Quintilien, n'ont ete connus d'abord que fort incomplets, et que
si les premiers imprimeurs out trouve quelques anciens classiques en etat
d'etre publies, ils le doivent au Petrarque, au Poge et a d'autres homines
celebres, passionnes pour les lettres anciennes. D'autres ouvrages immortels,
ceux de Tacite et de Tite-Live par exemple, devaient rester incomplets
malgre les decouvertes successives de quelques fragments retrouves apres la
publication des premieres editions. Ceux qui ont l'habitude des manuscrits
savent parfaitement bien que, pour un meme auteur, il n'est arrive jusqu' a
nous que tres peu de copies reellement diff^rentes, et que la plupart de
celles qui nous restent ne sont que des reproductions plus ou moins correctes,
plus ou moins fautives, d'un petit nombre de textes qui, d'ordinaire, ont dis-
paru. C'est la ce que prouvent, par exemple, les manuscrits de Terence dans
lesquels on a si souvent reproduit l'ancienne souscription Calliojyius recensuit,
ou ceux de Priscien ou Ton a meme copie les dates que cet ancien ecrivain,
Theodore, placait a la fin de chaque division de l'ouvrage, pour marquer les
progres de son travail *. Mais sans faire remarquer davantage combien il est
important de s'appliquer a rassembler et a conserver les copies reellement dif-
ferentes et provenant de sources diverses, et combien de changements y ont
apporte" cette foule de gramuiairiens, d'abreviateurs, d'anriotateurs de toute
espece, qui ont travaille sur les anciens textes, non sans y laisser une trace
profonde, rappelons seulement, que les erudits qui a la renaissance des
lettres ont ete assez heureux pour retrouver dans des feuillets epars de quoi
completer un ouvrage jusqu' alors imparfait, n'ont pu souvent combler
ces lacunes qu'en intercalant d'une facon conjecturale les fragments qu'ils
avaient decouverts. C'est ce qui semble etre arrive pour le poeme de Lucrece
dont les manuscrits sont d'une rarete excessive, et dont il s'en trouve dans
ce Catalogue un fort ancien, et en partie palimpseste, avec des variantes
nouvelles, des rubriques et des intitules qui ne sont pas dans les editions.
Dans ce manuscrit plusieurs parties sont dans un ordre different de l'im-
prime.

Un autre volume, la traduction d'Aratus par Germanicus avec un an-
cien commentaire, decrit dans le Catalogue (No. 62), offre un exemple encore
plus frappant de la maniere dont quelques anciens auteurs ont ete publies
par des editeurs peu soucieux d'avouer au public qu'ils n'avaient eu a leur
disposition que des textes incomplets ou corrompus, et qui, en dissimulant
par des coupures ou des remplissages les imperfections de leur manuscrit,
ont rendu presque impossible a de nouveaux editeurs un travail plus con-
sciencieux et plus exact. A 1' exemple de St. Jerome qui cherchait " Non
tarn pulchros Codices quam emendatos" on s'est applique surtout, en form ant
cette collection, a rassembler des textes purs, fournissant des variantes impor-

* Vovez le No. 833.

xxvi INTBODUCTION.

tions of their manuscript by omissions or additions, have rendered the labours
of more exact and conscientious editors almost impossible. Following
the example of Saint Jerome, who sought for uNon tarn pulchros Codices
quam emendatos^ our chief aim in forming this collection has been to
bring together pure texts containing important various readings and unpub-
lished passages, and we venture to hope that in this respect, the present
Catalogue, containing a large number of classical manuscripts colleeted for this
especial purpose, will be found to merit the attention of the learned. Without
speaking of the important various readings which are to be found in the
manuscripts of Solinus, Priscian, Vegetius, Pruclentius, and Cassiodorus*,
those which will be observed in the manuscripts of Ovid, with some unpub-
lished versesf, as well as those in the ancient excerpta J, and in the manuscripts
of Claudian, Florus, Justin, Lucan, Partial, Persius, Pliny, and Quintus
Curtius§, many of which are accompanied by unpublished commentaries,
appear to us of a nature to justify this hope.

A collection of Grammarians written in the tenth century, said to have
belonged to Marcilius Ficinus, and which, besides unpublished fragments,
contains a text almost entirely new of one of the works of Donatus |j ; several
manuscripts, differing greatly from the printed editions, of the Commentary
of Servius on Virgil ^[, a work of such importance for the ancient history of
Italy ; and finally, a number of manuscripts of other grammarians, some of
them of the ninth century **, invite the notice of the learned who seek to
introduce to the public texts more correct, or absolutely new, of the Latin
Grammarians.

In dwelling thus on the necessity of consulting fresh texts, and com-
paring them carefully with those already published, we do not wish that any
of the ideas of the Pere Hardouin should be attributed to us. In our opinion
the ancient writers have really existed, and it is undoubtedly antiquity which
has bequeathed to us those admirable models which this commentator of Pliny
imagined in his dreams to have been fabricated during the Middle Ages. All
that we will permit ourselves here to advance on this point is, that most of the
texts of the ancients have only reached us after undergoing considerable
alterations, from the ignorance of the copyists, the temerity and lack of
intelligence of ancient emendators (recensores) , the ravages of time, and the
want of discernment of many of the early editors. Proper names distorted,
passages suppressed, lacunce filled up at hazard or concealed, ancient glosses
introduced into the text, the original order of the work changed, — all these
things are found in the editions; and those who still doubt it have only to
compare the different editions of any Latin author, with whom they believe
themselves well acquainted, with the manuscripts. And this is not only true

* See No?. 946, 833, 1028, 840 and 229. f See Nos. 749 754.

% See No. 363. § See Nos. 2G5, 380, 558, 623, 661, 780, 806, 849. || Sec No. 424.

<*[ See Nos. 935-937. ** See Nos. 58, 248, 320, 726, 833-836, &c

INTRODUCTION. xxvii

tantes, des passages inedits, et Ton ose esperer qu'a cet egard ce Catalogue,
contenant un grand nombre de manuscrits classiques, reunis dans ce but
special, pourra meriter Fattention des savants. Sans parler des variantes con-
siderables qu'on trouvera dans les manuscrits de Solin, de Priscien, de Vegece,
de Prudence, de Cassiodore#, celles qu'on remarquera dans les manuscrits
d'Ovide, avec des vers inedits-^, ainsi que dans d'anciens Excerpta%, et dans les
manuscrits de Claudien, de Floras, de Justin, de Lucain, de Martial, de
Perse, de Pline, de Quinte Curce§, dont plusieurs sont accompagnes de com-
mentaires inedits, nous semblent de nature a justifier cet espoir. Un recueil
de grammairiens c'crit au Xe siecle, qu'on dit avoir appartenu a Marcile Eicin, et
qui, outre des morceaux inedits, contient un texte presqu' absolument nouveau
d'un des ouvrages de Donat || ; plusieurs manuscrits, tres differents des im-
primes, du commentaire de Servius sur Yirgile^[, ouvrage si important
pour l'bistoire ancienne de l'ltalie, enfin un grand nombre de manuscrits
d'autres grammairiens, dont quelques uns du IXe siecle,** s'adressent particu-
lierement aux erudits qui cherclient a offrir au public des textes plus corrects,
ou meme tout-a-fait nouveaux, des grammairiens Latins.

En appuyant ainsi sur la necessite de consulter de nouveaux textes et de les
comparer soigneusement avec ceux qui ont ete deja publies, nous ne voudrions
pas qu'on nous attribuat quelques unes des idees du Pere Hardouin. A notre
avis, les anciens auteurs ont bien reellement existe', et c'est bien l'antiquite qui
nous a legue ces admirables modeles que, dans ses reveries, ce commentateur
de Pline supposait avoir ete fabriques au moyen age. Tout ce que nous nous
permettons d'avancer ici, c'est que la plupart des textes anciens ne nous sont
parvenus qu' apres avoir subi des alterations notables, par l'ignorance des
copistes, par la hardiesse et le peu de lumieres des anciens correcteurs (re-
censores), par l'effet du temps et de la vetuste, et par le manque de dis-
cernement de plusieurs des premiers editeurs. Noms propres estropies,
passages supprimes, lacunes remplies au nasard-ou dissimulees, anciennes
gloses introduites dans le texte, disposition primitive de l'ouvrage changee,
on trouve de tout cela dans les editions ; ceux qui en douteraient encore n'ont
qu'a essayer de comparer avec les manuscrits les diverses editions de tel auteur
Latin qu'ils croient bien connaitre. Et ceci n'est pas vrai seulement pour
les anciens ecrivains : les Chroniques, les oeuvres des Poetes les plus
celebres du moyen age et de la renaissance, les Homans de Chevalerie, et en
general les ouvrages qui n'ont pas ete publies par 1' auteur lui-meme, peuvent
donner lieu a des remarques analogues. Ce sont la des clioses que les erudits,
les savants de profession n'ont que trop souvent eu l'occasion de constater,
mais dont la generalite du public ne semble pas se douter.

* Voyez les Nos. 946, 833, 1028, 840, 229. f Voyez les Nos. 749-754.

% Voyez le No. 363. § Voyez les Nos. 265, 380, 558, 623, 661, 780, 806, 849.

j| Voyez le No. 424. % Voyez les No?. 935-937.

** Voyez les Nos. 58, 248, 320, 726, 833-836, etc.

xxviii INTRODUCTION.

with regard to ancient authors ; for Chronicles, works of the most cele-
brated Poets of the Middle Ages and of the times of the revival of
learning, Romances of Chivalry, and, generally, works which have not been
published by authors themselves, give occasion for analagous remarks. These
are matters which the learned, the savants by profession, have only too
often had reason to ascertain, but of which the public in general appears to
have no suspicion.

Rich in Latin classics, this collection contains also some ancient Greek
manuscripts of great value. None of the facsimiles published in the works,
in which it has been attempted to reproduce the finest forms of ancient Greek
writing, offer anything more elegant, than the manuscript of Saint Gregory
of Nyssa*, which is certainly of the beginuing of the ninth century. The
Saint John Chrysostom, in which the shape of the characters and accents
indicates an epoch almost as ancientf, and above all, the EvangeliariumJ,
which, in the beauty of the writing, as well as in certain ornaments, exactly
resembles the famous Codex JEbnerianus at Oxford, seem to rank in the first
class of manuscripts of this kind.

If ancient Greek manuscripts are not more numerous in this collection,
it arises from the difficulty of procuring them, a difficulty which now-a-days
is excessive, and which seems never to have been greater. We know, in
fact, that when the powerful Soliman wished to show his gratitude to the
Marquis de Mendoza, a great amateur of manuscripts, who had ransomed for
a large sum and restored to him his son who had been taken prisoner, this
great Soliman, who had in his power all the literary riches of Greece, could
find no more than thirty-one (some say thirty-two) Greek manuscripts to
offer him as an acceptable present.

To announce that Italian literature has not been neglected in this col-
lection, is only to say what every one will have divined before hand. Thus,
along with the finest and most remarkable manuscripts of Dante, Petrarch,
and Beato Jacopone, there will be found herein rich collections oiRime Antiche,
ascending even to the origin of the Italian language, Chronicles, Romances of
Chivalry which have never been published, and, in a word, all that is most
interesting in Italian literature.

Without being so richly represented, the other modern languages are not
wanting in this collection. Ancient French poems, either inedited, or muti-
lated in the printing, Romances of Chivalry which only exist in manuscript,
two manuscripts in Limousin, one of which seems certainly to have been written
for King Alphonso of Aragon, and a collection of poems in old English with the
arms of Henry VIII on the binding, and which, doubtless, belonged to that
sovereign, show beyond a doubt that no branch of literature has been neglected
in this Catalogue.

Without reproducing here a great part of the Catalogue, it would be

* Sec No. 430. -f See No. 542. J See No. 354.

INTRODUCTION, xxix

Tres riche en classiques Latins, cette collection contient aussi quelques
manuscrits Grecs anciens, et d'un grand prix. Aucun des fac-similes publics
dans ces ouvrages, oii Ton s'est applique a, reproduire les plus belles formes
de l'ancienne ecriture Grecque, n'offre rien de plus elegant que le manuscrit
de St. Gregoire de Nysse *, qui est certainement du commencement du
IX6me siecle. Le St. Jean Chrysostome, dans lequel la forme des caracteres
et des accents indique une epoque presque aussi anciennef, et surtout
l'Evangeliaire^ qui, par la beaute de 1' ecriture, comme par certains ornements,
ressemble parfaitement au fameux Codex Ehnerianus d' Oxford, semblent se
placer au premier rang des manuscrits de ce genre.

Si les anciens manuscrits Grecs ne sont pas plus nombreux dans cette
collection, cela vient surtout de la difficulte de se les procurer, difficulte qui est
excessive aujourd'hui et qui ne semble avoir jamais ete beaucoup moms grande.
On sait en effet que lorsque le puissant Soliman voulut montrer sa reconnais-
sance au lylarquis de Mendoza, grand amateur de manuscrits, qui avait rachete
a grand prix et lui avait rendu son fils retenu prisonnier, ce grand Soliman,
qui avait en son pouvoir toutes les ricliesses litt^raires de la Grece, ne put
trouver que 31 (d'autres disent 32) manuscrits Grecs pour lui en faire
present.

Annoncer que la litterature Italienne n'a pas ete negligee ici, c'est dire
une chose que tout le monde devinait d'avance. Aussi a cote des plus beaux,
des plus remarquables Manuscrits du Dante, du Petrarque, du Beato Jaco-
pone, on trouvera de riches recueils de Hime antiche remontant jusqu'a,
l'origine de la langue Italienne, des chroniques, des Romans de Chevalerie
qu'on n'a jamais publies, en un mot tout ce que la litterature Italienne offre
de plus interessant.

Sans etre aussi richement representees, les autres langues modernes ne
font pas faute dans cette collection. D'anciennes poesies Francaises inedites,
ou qu'on avait mutilees en les imprimant, des Romans de Chevalerie qui
n'existent qu'en manuscrit, deux manuscrits en Limousin, dont l'un semble
positivement avoir ete ecrit pour le roi Alphonse d'Aragon, et un recueil de
poesies en vieux Anglais relie aux armes de Henri VIII,et qui a sans doute
appartenu a ce prince, montrent, a n'en pas douter, qu'aucune branche de la
litterature ne s'y trouve negligee.

A moins de reproduire ici une grande partie du Catalogue, il ne serait
guere possible de donner un apercu suffisant des documents historiques qui
s'y rencontrent. Nous nous bornerons done a signaler un manuscrit du
Xe au XIe siecle de VHistoria gentis Anglorum, par Bede, avec des variantes
dignes de remarque§; un recueil considerable relatif a St. Benoit et a son
temps ||; un chronique du Mont Cassin en partie inedite^"; une volume rempli
de pieces originales ay ant appartenu a, l'Empereur Maximilien** et annotees

* Voyez le No. 430. f Voyez le No. 542. % Voyez le No. 354.

§ Voyez le No. 140. || Voyez le No. 143. % Voyez le No. 984.

* * Vovez le No. 504.

xxx INTRODUCTION.

impossible to give a sufficient estimate of the historical documents which
occur in it. We will content ourselves, therefore, with pointing out a manu-
script of the tenth or eleventh century of the Historia gcntis Anglorum by
Bede, with various readings worthy of attention*, a considerable collection
relative to Saint Benedict and his tiniest, a Chronicle of Monte- Cassino, partly
unpublished^, a volume full of original pieces, which belonged to the Em-
peror Maximilian §, and containing notes by him, at the head of which will
be found a new text of the Gesta Herum Francorum given by Freher, and
reprinted by Bom Bouquet ; different Chronicles relating to France, one of
which seems to have belonged to Pope Clement XII || ; the original account
of the expenditure of Leo X, with a note of the sums paid to Raphael for his
labours^" ; a new Chronicle of Lupo di Giovenazzo, with a very curious local
colouring, as well as the perfect Chronicle of Castaldo, which was mutilated, as
we have already said, by the editors, and in which we see the Neapolitan ladies
availing themselves of the license of a bal masque to address the* Emperor
Charles V with bold words in favour of political exiles**, a Chronicle of the
Abbey of Elorenceff, which exhibits the head of that ancient and celebrated
convent entering, at the Council of Constance, into a conspiracy the object of
which was to drown all the Cardinals ; and a Chronicle of Peru^J, written in
the sixteenth century, which seems to be unknown. Let us not forget several
original collections made by the terrible tribunal of the Inquisition, in which
will be found the details of frightful trials§§.

Music, which belongs at once both to science and literature, ought natu-
rally to find a place in a similar collection. A manuscript of Greek music ||||,
which appears to have escaped all researches, opens the series, which
is tolerably rich in monuments of the music fl" of the ninth, tenth, and eleventh
centuries, written in neumes ; and collections, less ancient, of theoretical and
practical*** music, form also a portion of this series. Several manuscripts of
the eleventh eenturyttt, in which the accents placed on Latin words have
received the same form as the neumes, or musical* notes, employed at that time,
afford an additional argument in favour of those who think that the signs of
prosody and the ancient musical notes were at first one and the same thing.

Those who maintain that the Gregorian chant and the ancient neumes
were nothing more than a method of fixing the pronunciation, rhythmical in
certain respects, of the Latin language ; may, in default of other proofs,
find in the actual cadence of poetry and prose, as practised by the
Oriental nations, a living example by which to explain what has been related

* See No. 140. f See No. 143. % See No. 984.

§ See No. 504. || See Nos. 384 and 385. f See No. 601.

** See Nos. 230, 628, etc. ff See No. 377. %% See No. 620.
§§ See Nos. 318, 517-520, 1012, etc. |||| See No. 543.

ff See Nos. 217, 358, 595, 596, 597, 760, 844, 1053, 1103, 1114, 1116, etc.
*** See Nos. 694, 702-705. fff See Nos. 269, 1055 and 1103.

INTBODUCTION. xxxi

par lui, a la tote desquelles se trouve un nouveau texte du Gesta Berum
Francorwn donne par Freher et reimprime par Dom Bouquet ; diverses chro-
niques relatives a, la France et dont Tune parait avoir appartenu au pape
Clement XII* ; les comptes originaux des depenses de Leon X. avec l'indi-
cation des somrnes payees a Baphael pour ses travaux f ; une nonvelle chro-
nique de Lupo di Griovenazzo, empreinte d'une si curieuse couleur locale,
ainsi que la chronique de Castaldo mutilee, nous l'avons deja dit, par les
editeurs, et ou. Ton voit les dames de Naples profiter de la liberie d'un bal
masque pour faire eutendre a Charles V, de courageuses paroles en faveur des
proscrits politiques J ; enfin une Chronique de la Badia de Florence § qui
montre le chef de cet ancien et celebre couvent entrant, au concile de Con-
stance, dans une conspiration qui avait pour but de faire noyer tous les Car-
dinaux, et une Chronique || du Perou, ecrite au XVPme. siecle, et qui parait
inconnue. N'oublions pas plusieurs recueils originaux formes par le terri-
ble tribunal de requisition et ou Ton trouvera les details d'epouvantables
proces.^f

La musique, qui tient a la fois aux sciences et a la litterature, devait
naturellement avoir place dans un semblable collection. Un manuscrit de
musique Grecque #* qui parait avoir echappe a toutes les recherches, ouvre la
serie assez riche en monuments de la musique ft du IX6me, du X6me, et du
XPme siecle, ecrite en neumes ; des recueils moms anciens de musique theo-
rique et pratique {J f°nt aussi partie de cette serie. Certains manuscrits du
XI6me siecle §§, dans lesquels on a donne aux accents places sur des mots
latins, la meme forme qu'avaient les neumes, ou les notes musicales employees
alors, offrent un argument de plus a ceux qui pensent que les signes de la
prosodie et les anciennes notes musicales n'ont fait d'abord qu'une seule et
meme chose.

Les personnes qui croyent que le chant Gregorien et les anciens neumes
n'ont ete qu'un moyen de determiner la prononciation, a quelques egards
rhythmique, de la langue Latine, pourraient, a, defaut d'autres preuves,
retrouver dans la cadence actuelle de la poesie et de la prose soutenue chez les
peuples Orientaux, de quoi expliquer par un exemple vivant ce qu'on nous
raconte de la maniere de declamer des Grrecs et des domains. Nous avons
pu en juger nous meme en entendant lire et reciter des vers par deux savants
Mahometans, aux lumieres desquels nous avons eu recours pour nous guider et
pour eclaircir nos doutes dans la description des manuscrits Orientaux contenus
dans cette collection. Sans parler des manuscrits historiques et scientifiques,
qui seront apprecies par les juges competents, ni des manuscrits ornes de

* Voyez les Nos. 384 et 385. f Voyez le No. 601. J Voyez les Nos. 230, 628, etc.

§ Voyez le No. 377. || Voyez le No. 620.

% Voyez les Nos. 318, 517-520, 1012, etc. ** Voyez le No. 543.

ft Voyez les Nos. 217, 358, 595, 596, 597, 760, 844, 1053, 1103, 1114, 1116, etc.

%t Voyez les Nos. 694, 702-705, etc. §§ Voyez les Nos. 269, 1055, 1103.

xxxii INTRODUCTION.

to us of the mode of declaiming among the Greeks and Romans. We have
ourselves been able to judge of this in listening to the reading and enunciation
of poetry of two learned Mohammedans, to whose enlightened knowledge we
have had recourse, to guide us and clear up our doubts in the description of
the Oriental manuscripts contained in this Collection. "Without speaking of
the historical and scientific manuscripts which will be appreciated by competent
judges, or of the manuscripts ornamented with figures, which we have already
indicated in a general way, the Apocryphal Bible of Akliinas, the marvellous
accounts* in which yield in no respect to the "Arabian Nights," the Cufic
Koran, the Coptic Dictionary, the collection of Arabo-Spanish poets, a
similar collection of Persian poets, the Bhagavat Grita in Sanskrit, written
and ornamented so wonderfully, and above all, the extraordinary work of
Isma'il ibn Makri, who certainly incurred no appreciable risk when he offered
to give Ms beloved wife to any one who could produce its equal, — will alone
suffice to attach some interest to the Oriental part of this Collection.

It is especially the description of the Oriental manuscripts which we
offer to the. public with hesitation. Besides the inherent difficulties in
a task of this kind, in which it was necessary for almost as many lite-
rary men to take part as there were different Oriental languages, there
is also a peculiar difficulty, namely, that of transcribing Oriental names
in a Catalogue drawn up in English. Those persons who are unac-
quainted with Oriental languages, and who sometimes so boldly propose
to suppress the Eastern alphabets, and write Sanskrit, Arabic and Per-
sian in Roman characters, have no clear idea of the difficulty of such
a problem, which every Orientalist endeavours to solve after his own
fashion. The numerous attempts which have been made to arrive at
this solution, still as distant as ever, have only succeeded hitherto in pro-
ducing an infinity of different systems, and in giving the most unusual forms
even to the names with which we are most familiar. Eor languages in which
the value and pronunciation of the signs of the alphabet is almost invariable,
this difficulty would not be so great, and although there certainly does not
exist in Italian a letter which could render the gargling sound (to avail
ourselves of an expression which the learned Richardson has set in circulation)
which one of the Arabic letters represents, to European ears, yet, for most of
the letters at least, the transcription would have been less awkward in Italian
than in any other Western language. But this Catalogue being drawn up in
English, that is to say in a language in which the vowels, and even several of
the consonants, have a variable value, and one, so to speak, of position, and
with which we are but imperfectly acquainted, we found ourselves in great
embarrassment at the moment of choosing between the different methods of
transcription, especially as we had to preserve in the notes the vulgar ortho-
graphy of common words, and in the quotations the orthography, often a
foreign one, of the authors whom we quoted. After having taken the advice

INTEODU CTION. xxxiii

figures que nous avous deja indiques generalement, la Bible apocryphe
d'Akllmas, dont les recits merveilleux ne le cedent en rien aux Contes des
mille et une nuits, le Coran Cufique, le dictionnaire de la langue Copte, le
recueil des poetes Arabo-Espagnols, tel autre recueil de poetes Persans, le
Bhagavat Grita en Sanscrit, si merveilleusement ecrit et orne, et surtout
l'ouvrage si extraordinaire d'lsma'il ibn Makri qui, certes sans courir grand
danger, offrait de donner safemme cherie a quiconque en saurait faire unpareil,
suffiraient seuls pour repandre quelque interet sur la partie Orientale de cette
Collection.

C'est surtout la description des manuscrits Orientaux que nous presen-
tons avec hesitation au public. Aux difficultes inherentes a un travail de ce
genre, auquel devaient presque necessairement prendre part autant d' homines
lettres qu'il y avait de langues Orientales differentes, s'ajoute ici une difficulte
toute speciale, celle de la transcription des noms Orientaux dans un Catalogue
redige en Anglais. Les personnes qui n'ont pas l'habitude des langues
Orientales, et qui parfois proposent si hardiment de sup primer les alphabets
Orientaux pour ecrire le Sanscrit, le Persan, ou l'Arabe en caracteres Euro-
peens, ne se font pas une idee bien nette de la difficulte d'un tel probleme,
que chaque Orientaliste s'efforce de resoudre a sa maniere. Les nombreux essais
qu'on a faits pour arriver a cette solution encore eloignee n'ont reussi, jusqu'a
present qu'a produire une infinite de systemes differents, et a donner les
formes les plus insolites aux noms meme qui nous sont le plus familiers#
Pour les langues dans lesquelles la valeur et la prononciation des signes de
l'alphabet est a peu pres invariable, cette difficulte ne serait pas si grande, et
bien qu'il n'existe certes pas en Italien une lettre destinee a, rendre (pour
nous servir d'une expression que le savant Bichardson a mise en circulation)
le bruit de gargarisme que represente pour les Europeens un des carac-
teres Arabes, pour la plupart des lettres du moins, la transcription aurait
ete moins malaisee en Italien qu'en toute autre langue Occidentale.
Mais ce Catalogue etant redige en Anglais, langue dont les voyelles et
plusieurs consonnes meme n'ont qu'une valeur variable et pour ainsi dire de
position, et avec laquelle nous ne sommes qu' imparfaitement familiarise,
nous nous sommes trouve dans un grand embarras au moment de choisir entre
les differents modes de transcription ; surtout devant conserver aux mots
habituels, dans les notes, l'orthographe vulgaire, et aux citations, l'orthographe
souvent etrangere, des auteurs que nous citions. Apres avoir pris les avis des
juges les plus competents, nous avons tache de reproduire l'ecriture plutot
que la prononciation des langues Orientales ; d'autant plus que c'est la ce qui
a ete fait pour le Catalogue du British Museum. Nous ne nons dissimulons
pas les inconvenients d'une telle resolution; le plus frappant de tous, celui qui
se rencontre a l'entree du Catalogue, c'est d'avoir ete amene a ecrire JVasir-
al-Dln, pour designer l'astronome si connu de tous les savants sous le nom

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xxxiv INTRODUCTION.

of the most competent judges, we have endeavoured to reproduce rather the
spelling than the pronunciation of the Oriental languages, especially as this
is the method which has been followed in the Catalogue of the British
Museum. We are not, however, unconscious of the inconveniences of such a
resolution ; the most striking of all, which will be met with at the commence-
ment of the Catalogue, is the having been induced to write " Nasir-al-Din " to
designate the astronomer, who is known to all the learned under the name of
" Nassir Eddin." In adopting this course we felt that we rendered ourselves
liable perhaps to severe criticism, but in the hope to meet with some indul-
gence, we will permit ourselves to observe, that the difficulty of transcribing
Oriental words in English characters has been long ago pointed out. It had
already struck a man, as superior for the depth of his Oriental learning as for
the penetration and acumen of his mind. We would request those who may
find the orthography which we have adopted capricious, to remember that
in order to give an idea of the difficulty of the problem which was to be
solved, with the aid of English orthography, Sir William Jones applied this
test to a celebrated ode * : those who know it best by heart will probably
have some difficulty to recognise the verses of the French poet in the fol-
lowing lines :

" Law more aw day reegyeurs aw nool otruh parellyuh

Onne aw bo law preeay,
Law crooellyuh kellay suh booshuh lays orellyuh,

Ay noo laysuh creeay."

In making thus light of what concerns the orthography of Oriental names,
we do not wish to imply that in other respects our Catalogue is much less
imperfect. Everything calls for indulgence in the notes, not a single line of
which was in existence a few months ago, and a great part of which has
been hastily drawn up by an individual who only sells a portion of his
collection on account of his ill-health. Compelled for this reason to quit
London, the owner could not think of dragging after him 30,000 volumes.
It is only an attempt at a Catalogue Maisonne which we here present, and
in this attempt we have been obliged to submit to the forms of a Sale Cata-
logue, and to follow the rules adopted in similar cases. Perhaps some persons
will even find that we have not sufficiently observed those rules ; and in this
respect we ought to address our thanks to Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson,
who, after having afforded us themselves and by means of well-informed
assistants all the support which we could desire, have permitted us, with a
liberality of view which does them honour, to release ourselves from the rule
more frequently than would have been supposed possible by those who are not
so well acquainted as ourselves with their enlightened zeal for bibliography
and the fine arts. It is to this assistance that are especially due those typo-
graphical indications and formulas which serve to draw the attention of

* Jones (Sir W.) Works, (vol. I. p. 180).

INTRODUCTION. xxxv

de " Nassir Eddin." En prenant un tel parti, nous sentions que nous nous
exposious peut-etre a des critiques severes ; dans l'espoir de rencontrer
quelque indulgence, nous nous permettrons de rappeler que cette difficulte de
la transcription des mots Orientaux en langue anglaise a ete depuis longtemps
signalee. Elle avait deja frappe un homme aussi superieur par la profondeur
de sa science Orientale, que par la penetration et la finesse de son esprit.
Que les personnes qui trouveront bizarre l'orthographe que nous avons adoptee
veuillent bien se rappeler que, pour faire comprendre la difficulte du probleme
qu'il s'agit de resoudre a l'aide de l'ortliographe anglaise, Sir William Jones*,
avait applique cet instrument a une ode celebre; ceux meme qui la savent le
mieux par coeur auront peut etre quelque peine a retrouver les vers du poete
Francais dans les lignes que voici :

"Law more aw day reegyeurs aw nool otruh parellyuh
Onne aw bo law preeay,

Law crooellyuh kellay suh booshuh lays orellyuh,
Ay noo laysuh creeay."
En faisant si bon marche de ce qui touclie a l'orthographe des manuscrits
Orientaux, nous ne voulons pas donner a entendre que sous d'autres rapports
notre Catalogue soit beaucoup moins imparfait. Tout reclame indulgence
dans ces notes dont il n'existait pas une seule ligne il y a peu de mois, et qui,
en grande partie, ont ete redigees a la hate par une personne qui ne met en
vente une partie de ses Collections que pour des raisons de mauvaise sante.
Force, pour ce motif, de quitter Londres nous ne pouvions songer a nous
faire suivre par 30,000 volumes. Ce n'est qu'un essai de Catalogue raisonne
que nous presentons ici ; et dans cet essai nous avons du nous plier aux
formes d'un Catalogue de vente, et suivre les habitudes adoptees en pareil cas.
Peut-etre meme quelques personnes trouveront-elles que nous n' avons pas
assez observe ces habitudes, et en cela nous devons adresser nos remerciments
a Messrs. Sotheby et Wilkinson qui, apres nous avoir offert'par eux memes et
par des collaborateurs instruits tout le concours que nous pouvions desirer,
nous ont permis, avec une liberalite de vues qui les honore, de nous en affran-
chir plus souvent que n'auraient pu le supposer possible ceux qui ne connai-
traient pas aussi bien que nous leur zele eclaire pour la bibliographie et pour
les arts. C'est a ce concours zele que sont dues surtout ces indications typo-
graphiques, ces formules qui servent a attirer l'attention des amateurs sur les
volumes les plus remarquables, et que nous ne pouvions pas songer a faire
disparaitre ; car encore un coup nous desirons qu'on veuille bien ne jamais
l'oublier, ceci n'est autre chose qu'un Catalogue de Vente.

Toutes les fois que cela pouvait sembler utile, on a, dans la description
des volumes, scrupuleusement reproduit les textes, meme avec les fautes
d'orthographe. Pour les manuscrits , les plus importants du moins, on a cru

* Jones (Sir W.) Works (vol. I. p. 180).
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xxxvi INTRODUCTION.

amateurs to the most remarkable volumes, and which we could not think of
banishing, the more especially as we hope it will not be forgotten that this is
nothing more than a Sale Catalogue.

"Whenever it appeared likely to be useful, we have in our descriptions of
the volumes scrupulously reproduced the text, even with the orthographical
errors. In the case of the most important manuscripts we have thought it
necessary to give an idea of their rarity by pointing out the number of copies
which are to be found in the most considerable collections on the Continent ;
but we have not taken the same trouble in the case of manuscripts which are
in English collections, because there are abundant means of information con-
cerning these, and we should have been afraid of not rendering justice to the
learning and ability of Sir F. Madden and J)T. Bandinel, if we had ventured
to speak in detail of the collections entrusted to those learned librarians, and
so liberally placed at the disposal of the public. But although we are aware
that everything which is to be found in English collections is perfectly well
known in England, we could not hope that all readers would give them-
selves the trouble to ascertain, by laborious research, that in all countries
the smaller poems attributed to Virgil and Ovid, for example, are, as well as
the poems of Lucretius and Manilius, and the work of Censorinus, of an ex-
traordinarily rare occurrence in manuscript. We have frequently also
indicated unpublished works, but every one will understand that this
only means that we have made, and caused to be made, all the researches
possible without having discovered any edition of the work in question.
As far as possible we have noted the ancient collections to which
these manuscripts belonged ; many of them have issued from the celebrated
libraries of the Medicis, the Grimani, the Strozzi, the Kings of Naples and
Aragon, the Queen of Navarre, Griannozzo Manetti, the Congregation of
Ste. Justine of Padova, Apostolo Zeno, &c. But the most remarkable manu-
scripts of this kind, and which on account of the richness as well as the
antiquity of their binding may be styled real works of art, will be de-
scribed with the printed books in ancient and historical bindings, which,
to the number of several hundreds, will speedily figure in the Catalogue
of the Bare Books in our Collection.

During the last few years, these volumes have been several times
examined by illustrious savants and paleographers, whose opinion is of the
highest authority in all Europe; but although these distinguished connoisseurs
have perfectly agreed with us as to the age of these manuscripts, we have not
imagined that on this point simple assertions ought to be accepted without
verification. As a means of verifying not only the age of the manuscripts,
but also the genuineness of those which we announce as autographs, numerous
fac-similes accompany the Catalogue*. In order that the reader may also,

* We should have wished to make known by fac-similes the magnificent miniatures described
under the Nos. 157, 359, 1135, 1164 of the Catalogue, hut the undertaking was too difficult, and
we have been obliged to relinquish it.

INTRODUCTION. xxxvii

devoir donner une idee de leur rarete en faisant connaitre le nombre d'exem-
plaires qui s'en trouvent dans les Catalogues des Collections les plus con-
siderables du Continent. Nous n'avons pas fait le meme travail a propos des
manuscrits qui sont dans les collections Anglaises, car pour ceux-ci les moyens
d'information aboudent, et nous aurions craint de ne pas rendre justice au
savoir et aux lumieres de Sir Fr. Madden et du Docteur Bandinel, si nous
avions ose parler avec quelque detail des collections confiees a ces savants
bibliotliecaires, et mises si liberalement a la disposition du public. Mais
quoique nous sachions qu'on connait parfaitement en Angleterre ce qui
se trouve dans les collections anglaises, nous ne pouvions espt'rer que tous les
lecteurs se clonneraient la peine de s'assurer, par des recherches laborieuses,
que, dans tous les pays, les petits poemes attribues a Ovide et a Yirgile par
exemple sont, ainsi que les poemes de Lucrece, de Manilius, et l'ouvrage de
Censorinus, d'une rarete extraordinaire en manuscrit. Souvent on a signale
aussi les ouvrages inedits, mais cliacun doit comprendre que cela signifie
seulement qu'on a fait et fait' faire toutes les recherches possibles,
sans decouvrir aucune edition de l'ouvrage dont il s'agit. Autant
qu'on l'a pu, on a indique les anciennes collections dont ces manuscrits out
fait partie ; plusieurs sont sortis des bibliotkeques celebres des Medicis, des
Grimani, des Strozzi, des Hois de Naples et d'Aragon, de la Heine de
Navarre, de Giannozzo Manetti, de la congregation de Ste- Justine de Padoue,
d'Apostolo Zeno, etc. etc. Mais en ce genre les plus remarquables, tant par
la richesse que par l'antiquite de leur couverture, veritables objets d'art, seront
reunis aux livres imprimes, a reliures anciennes et historiques, lesquels, au
noinbre de plusieurs centaines, figureront procbainement dans le Catalogue
des livres rares de notre collection.

Durant le cours de ces dernieres annees, ces volumes ont etc plusieurs
fois examines par des savants illustres, par des paleograph.es dont l'opinion a
la plus haute autorite dans toute l'Europe ; mais bien que ces connaisseurs si
distingues se soient trouves parfaitement d'accord avec nous sur l'age de
ces manuscrits, nous n'avons pas cru qu'a cet egard des assertions pures et
simples pussent etre acceptees sans controle. Comme moyen de verification,
non seulement pour l'age des manuscrits mais aussi pour l'authentieite de
ceux que nous annoncons comme etant autographes, de nombreux fac-similes
accompagnent ce Catalogue.* Ann que les lecteurs puissent, au besoin, verifier
aussi les indications du Catalogue, on a donne une liste des editions des ouv-
rages qui ont ete consultes pour les notes. f Apres avoir pris toutes ces

* Nous aurions voulu faire connaitre par des fac-similes les magnifiqucs miniatures ddcrites
sous les Nos. 157, 357, 1135, 1164 du Catalogue, mais l'entreprise nous a semble trop difficile et
nous avons du y r^noncer.

f Ge'ne'ralement, pour les classiques Latins, nous nous sommcs servi des Collections de
Valpy et de Lemaire: ce ne sont pas toujours les meilleures editions, mais elles sont tres repon-
ducs et elles offrent, potir la generalite" des lecteurs du moins, un moyen facile de verification;
e'est ce qui nous porte a leur donner la preference.

xxxviii INTliODUCTIOlY.

when necessary, verify the references in the Catalogue, we have given a

list of the editions of the works which have been consulted for the notes*.

After having taken all these precautions, and under all possible reservation

for the errors inseparable from a similar task, and the typographical faults

which the state of our eyes rendered not less inevitable, we believe that we

may, without further hesitation, submit this Catalogue to the public.

However imperfect our labours may be, it would have been, however,

impossible to have completed them without the support and the very kind

and friendly assistance which we have received at the British Museum.

Known and applauded throughout Europe, the grand creation of Mr. Panizzi

has no need of one suffrage more ; but what cannot even be imagined by those

who have not seen it, is, that there exists in the heart of London a cupola as

large as that of Saint Peter at Borne, in which every day an extensive library,

admirably selected, and suitable for every kind of study, is open to all

genuine students who have the absolute use of it as if it were their own,

and where every one is at liberty to take the books on the shelves without

even having to give himself the trouble of replacing them, acting, in fact,

precisely as if he were at home, and able besides, by the help of immense

Catalogues, kept in perfect order, and of attendants as intelligent as polite, to

procure in a few minutes whatever is contained in a collection comprising

more than five hundred thousand volumes, that is to say, the most important

works of every kind which the press of every country, and in every age, has

produced. Regularity, promptitude, politeness, silence, comfort, nothing is

wantirg in this model establishment, where are to be found not only books,

but that instructive advice which every one who wishes to study is happy to

find near him. Thanks to a strong impulse, communicated by the chief

authorities to an administration which labours unceasingly to adopt the

improvements which may contribute to the well-being of the studious public,

and to facilitate its labours ; thanks to the assistance of a remarkable staff of

officers who, at every step of the ladder, take care to leave nothing to be

desired ; this is what nearly five hundred readers find every day at the British

Museum. This is what we have ourselves experienced there, and which has

been rendered peculiarly valuable to us by the kind friendship with which

we are honoured by Mr. Panizzi, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Watts : we should be

ungrateful if we did not offer them here the most lively expression of our

gratitude.

Gc. LIBEL

London, January 1, 1859.

* For the Latin classics we have generally cited the collections of Valpy and Lemahv ; not
that they are always the best editions, hut as they are almost everywhere to be met with, and
afford, for the generality of readers, at least, an easy means of verification, wc were induced
for these reasons to give them the preference.

INTBODUCTION. xxxix

precautions, et sous toutes les reserves possibles pour des erreurs inseparables
d'un tel genre de travail, ou des fautes d'impression que l'etat de nos yeux
rendait non moins inevitables, nous croyons pouvoir livrer sans plus d'hesita-
tion ce Catalogue au public.

Quelqu' imparfait que soit ce travail, il nous eut ete impossible pour-
tant de l'accoinplir sans l'appui et le concours le plus bienveillant, le plus
amical, que nous avons trouve dans la Bibliotheque du British Museum.
Connue et applaudie dans toute l'Europe, la grande creation de M. Panizzi n'a
pas besoin d'un suffrage de plus ; mais ce qu'on ne peut pas meme s'imaginer
quand on ne l'a pas vu, c'est qu'il existe au centre de Londres une coupole
grande comme celle de St. Pierre de Eome, dans laquelle tous les jours une
bibliotheque nombreuse, parfaitement choisie et appropriee a toutes les etudes,
est ouverte a tous les hommes veritablement desireux de s'instruire, qui en
ont l'usage absolu comme si c'etait la leur propre, et ou chacun a la faculte
de prendre les livres sur les tablettes, sans avoir meme a se donner la
peine de les remettre en place, agissant enfin absolument comme chez soi,
et pouvant de plus, a Faide d'immenses catalogues tenus dans un ordre
par fait, et d'employes aussi infcelligents que polis, se procurer en quelques
minutes tout ce que contient une collection de plus de cinq cent mille
volumes, c'est a dire ce qu'a produit de plus important en tous genres
la presse de toutes les epoques, de tous les pays. Regularity, promptitude,
politesse, silence, confort, rien ne manque a cet etablissement modele,
ou Ton trouve non seulement des livres, mais aussi les conseils eclaires que
tout homme qui veut travailler est heureux de rencontrer aupres de lui. Grace
a une impulsion forte, partie d'en haut, grace a une administration quis' efforce
sans cesse d' adopter les ameliorations qui peuvent contribuer au bien etre du
public et a faciliter ses travaux, grace au concours d'une reunion remarquable
d'employes qui, a tous les degres de l'echelle, prennent a tache de ne rien laisser
a desirer, c'est la ce que trouvent tous les jours pres de cinq cents lecteurs au
British Museum ; c'est la ce que nous y avons trouve nous-meme, et ce que nous
a rendu plus precieux qu'a tout autre la bienveillante amitie dont nous honorent
M. Panizzi, M. Jones, et M. Watts; nous serions ingrat si nous ne leur
offrions pas ici l'expression de notre plus vive reconnaissance.

G. LIBEL
Londres, le 1 Janvier, 1859.

LIST OF THE EDITIONS OF THE WORKS

EMPLOYED IN COMPILING THE CATALOGUE. (*)

Adelung, an Historical Sketch of Sanscrit Literature Svo. Oxford, 1832

Affo (I.) Memorie Storiche degli Scrittori Parmigiani (with the excellent continuation
of Cavalier Pezzana) Uo. Parma, (v.y.)

Agostini (G. Degli) Istoria degli Scrittori Veneziani, 2 vol. Uo. Venezia, 1752

Alberi (E.) Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veneziani, 9 vol. Svo. Firenze, 1839, et seq.
Algazelis, Philosophia et Logica Uo. Veneths, 1506

Allacci (Leone) Drammaturgia Uo. Venezia, 1755

Andres (G.) Dell'Origine, e dei Progressi d'Ogni Letteratura, 22 vol.

Svo. Venezia, 1783-1800
Anthologia Veterum Latinorum Epigrammatum (a Burmanno) 2 vol.

Uo. Amstelod. 1757-73
Anthologia Veterum Latinorum Epigrammatum et Poematum, 2 vol. Svo. Lipsim, 1835
Antonino (S.) Somma di Vizj (Omnis mortalium euro) Mo. (Secolo XV.)

Antonino (S.) Confessionale in Volgare Uo. Firenze, 1493

Antonio (N.) Bibliotheca Hispana nova, 2 vol. folio. Matriti, 1783

Arati Opera, a Buhle, 2 vol. Lipsice, 1793-1801

Arati, Avieni, Sereni et aliorum Opera varia Uo. Venetiis, 1488

Arch^eologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity, 37 vols. 4to. and 2 vols.

of Index London, 1770-1857

Archivio Storico Italiano, 26 vol Svo. Firenze, 1842-1858

Argelati (Ph.) Bibliotheca Scriptorum Mediolanensium, 4 vol. folio. Medial. 1745
Argelati (P.) Bibliotheca degli Volgarizzatori, 6 vol. Uo. Milano, 1767

Ariosto (L.) Rime e Satire Svo. Firenze, 1822

Assemanni (S. E.) Catalogus Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium Bibliothecse

Medicese folio. F lor entice, 1742

Astle (Th.) Origin of Writing Uo. London, 1803

Auctores Latinae Linguae a D. Gothofredo Uo. Genevcc, 1585

Backer (Aug. et Al. de) Bibliotheque des ecrivains de la compagnie de Jesus, 4 vol.

Svo. Liege, 1853, et seq.
Baldelli (G. B.) Del Petrarca e delle sue Opere Uo. Firenze, 1797

Baldelli (G. B.) Vita di Giovanni Boccaccio Svo. Firenze, 1806

Baldelli (G. B.) Viaggi di Marco Polo, &c. 4 vol. Uo. with atlas. Firenze, 1827
Bandini (A. M.) Catalogus Manuscriptorum Latinorum et Italicorum Bibliothecse
Medicese Laurentianse, 5 vol. folio. Florentim, 1774-78

Bandlni (A. M.) Bibliotheca Leopoldino-Laurentiana, 3 vol. folio. Florentice, 1791
Bartolocct (J.) Bibliotheca Rabbinica, 4 vol. folio. Romce, 1675-93

Batines (Colomb de) Bibliograna Dantesca, 2 vol. in 3 parts Svo. Prato, 1845

Bed^e Opera, 12 vol. Svo. London, 1843-44

Belcari (Feo.) Poesffe Svo. Firenze, 1833

Bibliografia Storica delle Citta e luoghi delloStato Pontificio, 2 vol. Uo. Roma, 1792
Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, described by J. Payne and H. Foss, 3 vol.

Svo. London, 1842, et seq.
Bibliotheca Heberiana, 12 vol. Svo. London, 1834-36

* Having been obliged, for the sake of brevity, to quote in the most concise way the works
mentioned in the Catalogue, we give here the editions, at least of the most important of them, in
order to enable every reader to apply to the original sources when more information is required.
It must however be understood that this is a mere list of editions for reference, and not a Biblio-
graphical work. When works, chiefly printed abroad, are still in course of publication, we have
generally stated only the number of volumes already arrived in England, or more frequently
we have written, v. y. (various years) without stating the number of volumes.

xlii LIST OF THE EDITIONS OF THE WORKS

Bibliotheca Meermanniana, 4 vol. Svo. Amstelod. 1824

Bibliotheque Classique Latine, publie*e par N. E. Lemaire, 144 vol.

Svo. Paris, 1819-38
Bibliotheques Francoises de la Croix du Maine et de Du Verdier, 6 vol.

4fo. Paris, 1772
Biographical Dictionary, published by the Society for the diffusion of Useful
Knowledge, 7 parts Svo. London, 1842, et seq.

Biographie Universelle, 52 vol. Svo. Paris, 1811-28

Blume (Fr.) Iter Italicum, 2 vol. 12mo. Berlin, 1824

Boccaccio (G.) Opere Volgari, 17 vol. Svo. Firenze, 1827-34

Boetii (A.) Opera folio. Basilece, 1570

Boetius (A. M.) de Consolatione Philosophise libri V, et ejusdem opuscula Sacra

Svo. Lug. Bat. 1671
Boissonade, Anecdota Grseca, 5 vol. Svo. Paris. 1829-33

Boncompagni (B.) della vita e delle versioni di Platone Tiburtino Ato. Roma, 1851
Boncompagni (B.) Vita di Gherardo Cremonense e di Gherardo da Sabionetta

4do. Roma, 1851
Bongarsii (Jac.) Gesta Dei per Francos, 2 vol. folio. Hanoviai, 1611

Bonnor (Hon.) Arbre des Batailles (S. L.) folio. 1493

Bouquet (Dom) Recueil des Historiens des Gaules folio. Paris, (v. y.)

Brunet (J. Ch.) Manuel du Libraire et de F Amateur, 5 vol. Svo. Paris, 1 842

Burchiello, Sonetti Svo. Londra, 1751

Butler (A.) Lives of the Saints, 12 vol. in 2 Svo. Dublin, 1838

Campanella (T.) Opere, 2 vol. 12mo. Torino, 1854

Caraccioli (A.) Chronologi Quatuor Ho. Neapoli, 1624

Casiri Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana, 2 vol. Matriti, 1766

Cassiano (Giovanni) Volgarizzamento Delle (Di lui) collazioni dei Santi Padri, testo

di lingua inedito Svo. Lucca, 1854

Cassiodori (M. Aur.) Opera omnia, 2 vol. folio. Venetiis, 1729

Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de Rosny 8vo. Paris, 1837

Catalogue of the Library of the Earl of Guildford, 3 parts, London, 1828-29 —

Id. Collection of Manuscripts, London, 1830 — Id. Library imported from Corfu,

2 parts, London, 1830 in 1 vol. Svo.

Catalogue of Manuscripts, in different languages (by Mr. Holmes)

Svo. London, 1829
Catalogue general des Manuscrits des bibliotheques publiques des departements,

tome premier 4do. Paris, 1852

Catalogo dei Manoscritti del Marchese Gino Capponi Svo. Firenze, 1845

Catalogus Manuscriptorum Bibliothecse regise Parisiensis, 4 vol. folio. Paris. 1739-44
Cavalca (Fra. Dom.) Opera, 17 vol. 16?no. Milano, 1840

Cave (G.) Antiquitates Apostolicse, 2 vol. 12mo. London, 1834

Cave (G.) Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Litteraria, 2 vol. folio* Oxoni, 1740-43
Censorinus de die Natali Svo. Ludg. Batav. 1743

Chartier (Al.) Les (Euvres folio. Paris, 1528

Chasles (M.) Apercu historique sur l'origine des Methodes en Geometrie

4to. Bruxelles, 1837
Ciaconii (A.) Historise Pontificum Romanorum, et S. R. E. Cardinalium, 4 vol.

folio. Romo3, 1677
Cibrario (L.) Relazioni dello Stato di Savoja Svo. Torino, 1830

Cicogna (E. A.) Saggio di Bibliografia Veneziana Svo. Venezia, 1847

Coleti (Fratelli) Catalogo delle storie particolari d'ltalia 4to. Venegia, 1779

Collectio auctorum-Latinorum ad usum Delphini (a Valpy), 14i*vol.

Svo. Londini, 1819-30
Colucci (G.) Le Antichita Picene, 31 vol. folio. 1786-97

Conti (G.) La Bella Mano Uo. Verona, 1753

Crelle, Journal de Mathematiques 4to. Berlin (v. y.)

Cureton (W.) Catalogus Manuscriptorum Arabicorum Mussei Britannici

folio. Londini, 1846
Cuvier (G.) Histoire des Sciences Naturelles (le et lie part.), 6 vol.

Svo. Paris, 1831-45
CYPRIANI (S.) Opera (a Baluzio) folio. Paris, 1726

EMPLOYED IN COMPILING THE CATALOGUE. xliii

D'Achery, Spicilegram, 3 vol. folio. Paris, 1723

Dante (Alighieri) Opere, 6 vol. Svo. Firenze, 1830

Daru, Histoire de la Republique de Venise, 11 vol. Svo. Bruxelles, 1840

Delambre (M.) Histoire de l'Astronomie Ancienne ; du Moyen Age ; Moderne ; et du

Dix huitieme Siecle, 6 vol. Uo. Paris, 1817-1827

De le Pierre (0.) Macaroneana Svo. Paris, 1852

De Morgan (A.) Arithmetical Books* from the invention of Printing to the present

time Svo. London, 1847

Denis (M.) Codices Manuscripti Theologici Bibliothecse Palatinse Vindob. 6 vol.

folio. Vienna, 1795-1802
De Rossi (G. B.) Dizionario Storico degli autori Ebrei, 2 vol. Svo. Parma, 1802

De Rossi (And.) Scrittori Piemontesi 4fo. Torino, 1790

Dibdin, Bibliotheca Spenceriana, 7 vol. Svo. London, 1814-23

Dugdale (W.) Monasticonf Anglicanun 8 vol. folio. London, 1817-30

Du Meril (Edelestand) Poesies populaires Latines Svo. Paris, 1847

Egidii (sic) Opus de Urinis et Pulsu, cum expositione clar. mag. Gentilis de Fulgineo

Ato. Saic. XV. (s. a.)
Elliot (H. M.) Bibliographical Index to the Historians of Muhammedan India, 4 vol.

Calcutta, 1849
Elms (J.) Sir Chr. Wren and his Times Svo. London, 1852

Elogi Italiani (raccolti dal Rubbi)), 12 vol. Svo. Venezia, 1782

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana ; Arithmetic (by Mr. Peacock) Uo. (s. a.)

Endlicher (S.) Catalogus Manuscriptorum Ph. Lathi. Bibliothecse Palatinse Vindob.

Uo. Vindob. 1836

Faber (Jac.) Neinorarius, Jord. et Boetii Arithmetica, etc. folio. Paris, 1496

Fabricius (J. Alb.) Bibliotheca Latina, 2 vol. \to. Venetiis, 1728

Fabricius (J. Alb.) Bibliotheca Latina, cura Ernesti, 3 vol. Svo. Lips. 1773

Fabricius (J. Alb.) Bibliotheca Latina mediae et inrimse setatis (cura Mansi) 6 vol.

4to. Patavii, 1754
Fabricius (J. Alb.) Biblotheca Grseca (cura Harles.), 13 vol. Ato. Hamb. 1780-1838
Fabricius (J. Alb.) Codex Apocriphus novi Testamenti, 3 parts Ylmo. Hamb. 1719-43
Fabroni (A.) Vita3 Italorum, 20 vol. Svo. Pisis, 1778-1805

Falkenstein (K.) Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst Uo. Leipzig, 1840

Fantuzzi (G.) Notizie degli Scrittori Bolognesi, 9 vol. folio. Bologna, 1781

Farlati (D.) Illyricum Sacrum, 8 vol. folio. 1751-1819

Farsetti (T. G.) Biblioteca Manoscritta Ylmo. Venezia, 1771

Fetis (F. J.) Biographie universelle des Musiciens, 8 vol. Svo. Bruxelles, 1837-44
Fiorentino (Cristoforo) detto l'Altissimo i reali di Francia Ho. Vineggia, 1534

Fioretti di S. Francesco Ato. Firenze, 1718

Fontanini (G.) Biblioteca dell' Eloquenza Italiana, con note d' Apostolo Zeno, 2 vol.

Ato. Venezia, 1753
Formaleoni (V.) Saggio sulla Nautica antica dei Veneziani Svo. Venezia, 1783

Foscarini (M.) Delia letteratura Veneziana folio. Padova, 1752

Furster (J.) Bibliotheca Valenciana, 2 vol. folio. Valencia, 1827-30

Gaisford (T.) Scriptores Latini Rei Metricse Svo. Oxonii, 1837

Galilei (G.) Opere, 2 vol. Ato. Bologna, 165(5

Galilei (G.) Opere, 17 vol. Svo. Firenze, 1842-56

Galilei (G.) Macchie Solari Uo. Roma, 1613

Galilei (G.) Trattato della Sfera 12mo. Roma, 1656

Gamba (B.) Serie dei testi di lingua Svo. Venezia, 1839
Gerbertus (M.) de Cantu et Musica Sacra, 2 vol. Mto. Typis S Blasianis, 1774

* When, in quoting this admirable little book, we have stated that a treatise on arithmetic
was not mentioned in it, we intended only to show how great must be the rarity of a work
which had escaped the investigations of so learned a man.

f Although this celebrated Monasticon is not specially mentioned in the Catalogue, we
need not say that in every matter connected with the history of England we have consulted the
work of Dugdale, to which Sir H. Ellis, Dr. Bandinel, and Mr. Caley, contributed so many valuable
additions.

xliv

LIST OE THE EDITIONS OE THE WORKS

Girault de St. Fargeau, Bibliographie de la France

Giustiniani, Biblioteca Storica del Regno diNapoli

Graaf (E. G.) Diutiska, 3 vol.

Graberg (G.) Annali cli Geografia e di Statistica, 2 vol.

Grammatici Latini, ex recensione Henrici Keilii, 5 vol.

Grazzini (A. F.) Rime, 2 vol.

Gregorii (S.) Nysseni de anima dialogus, a Krabingero

Gregorii (S,) Papae Opera, 4 vol.

Gregorio (S.) Dialoghi

Gringoire (P.) Rondeaulx, en nombre trois cens cinquante

Svo.
Guarnacci (M) Vitse Pontificum Romanorum, 2 vol.
Guizot, Cours d'Histoire Moclerne, 5 vol.

Svo

Sv

'0. Paris,

1563

Uo.

Napoli,

1703

. Stuttgard, 1826-29

Svo.

Gcnova,

1802

Svo.

IApsioB,

1855

Svo.

Firenze,

1741

Svo.

IApsice,

1830

folio.

Paris,

1765

folio.

Venetia,

1475

Paris, Galliot du Pre, 1527

folio. Romw, 1751

lGiiio. Bruxelles, 1835

H^enel (G.) Catalogi librorum Manuscriptorum

Hain (L.) Repertorium Bibliographicum, 4 vol.

HajI Khalfa Lexicon, 7 vol.

HAllam (H.) Introduction to the Literature of Europe, 4 vol

Halliwell (J. 0.) Rara Mathematica Svo.

Hammer (Jos. Von) Literatur der Araber, 7 vol. Svo.

Herbelot (D') Bibliotheque Orientale, folio, Mcestricht, 1776-1780,

La Haye, 1777-79
Herodotus, with a Commentary by J. W. Blakesley, 2 vol. Svo.

4/o. Lips. 1830

Svo. Stuttgard, 1826-38

4/o. Leipzig, 1835-50

12/no. Loudon, 1855

London, 1841

Wien, 1850-56

et 4 vol. 4/y.

London, 1854

Histoire Litteraire de la France, 23 vol. Ato. Paris, 1733-1856

Hontheim (J.J Historia Trevirensis, 5 vol. folio. Aug. Vindel 1750-57

Humboldt (A. de) Examen critique de l'Histoire de la Geographie du Nouveau Conti-
nent, 5 vol. Svo. Paris, 1836-1839

Isidori (S.) Opera, 7 vol.

Isographie des Hommes celebres, 4 vol.

4/o. Romce, 1797-1803
4/o. Paris, 1827-42

Jacopone (B.) Laudi Uo. Venetiis, 1514

Jacopone (B.) Poesie Spirituali Uo. Venetia, 1617

Jocher (Ch. Gottl.), Adelung, &c. allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, 8 vol.

4/o. Leipzig, 1750, et seq.
Jones (Owen) the Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages folio. London, 1849

Jones (Sir W.) Works, 6 vol. 4/o. London, 1799

Jourdain (C.) Recherches critiques sur Page et l'origine des traductions latines
D'Aristote Svo. Paris, 1843

Journal Asiatique Svo. Paris (v. y.)

Jubinal (A.) Nouveau Recueil de Contes, Dits, Fabliaux, etc. 2 vol. Svo. Paris, 1838

Lacroix (P.), Fournier et Sere le livre d'or des Metiers Svo. Paris (Sans Date)

La Lande (J.) Bibliographie Astronomique 4/o. Paris, 1803

Lambecius (P.) Comment, de Aug. Bibl. Csesarea, 8 vol. folio. Vindob. 1665 79

Laude Devote composte da diverse persone Spirituali 8vo. Venetia, 1556

Lebeuf (Abbe) Dissertations sur l'Histoire Ecclesiastique et Civile de Paris, 3 vol.

Ylmo. Paris, 1739-43
Legrand D'Aussy, Fabliaux ou Contes. 5 vol. Svo. Paris, 1829

Leland, de Scriptoribus Britannicis, 2 vol. Svo. Oxonicu, 1709

Lelewell (J.) Geographie du Moyen Age, 3 vol. Svo. and 4/o Atlas Bruxelles, 1852
Lelong (J.) Bibliotheque Historique de la France, 5 vol. folio. Paris, 1761

Lenglet du Fresnoy, Histoire de la Philosophie Hermetique, 3 vol. 12 wo. Paris 1742
Le Prince, Essai Historique sur la Bibliotheque du Roi 12mo. Paris, 1782

Leyser (Pol.) Historia Poetarum medii aevi Svo. Hal. Magd. 1721

Lindemanni (F.) Corpus Grammaticorum Latinorum Veterum, 4 vol. 4/o. Lips. 1831
Litta (P.) Famiglie celebri Italiane folio. Milano (v, y.)

Lombardi (A.) Storia della letteratura Italiana, hel secolo XVIII, 4 vol.

8vo. Modena, 1827-1830
Lydus (Laurentius) De Ostentis Svo. Pari*, 1823

Mabillon (J.) Musaeum Italicum, 2 vol.

4/o. Lutetue-Parva, 1687-89

EMPLOYED IN COMPILING THE CATALOGUE. xlv

MABILLON (J.) de Re Diplomatica folio. Paris, 1709

Maffei (S.) Verona Illustrata, 4 parts folio. 1731-32

Magagnati (Gir.) Capitoli Burleschi 12?no. Norimberg, 1643

Magagnati (G.) La Clomira Ylmo. Venetia, 1613

MAGALOTTI (L.) Yarie operette con giunta di otto lettere sulle terre odorose d'Europa

e d'America Vlmo. Milano, 1825

Magazin Encyclopedique, 122 vol. Svo. Paris, 1795-1816

Malcolm, History of Persia, 2 vol. Mo. London, 1815

Mangeti (J. J.) Bibliotheca Chemica, 2 vol. folio. Genevcv, 1702

Marchesi (S.) Supplemento Storico de la citta di Forli folio. Forli, 1678

Mariano da Siena, Viaggio in Terra Santa Svo. Firenze, 1824

Marsand (A.) Biblioteca Petrarchesca Svo. Milano, 1826

MARSAND (A.) I Manoscritti Italiani della Regia Biblioteca Parigina, 2 vol.

Mo. Paris, 1835
MAZZUCHELLT (G. M.) Scrittori dTtalia, 6 vol. folio. Brescia, 1753-1763

Medici (M.) Compendio Storico della Scuola anatomica di Bologna 4to. Bologna, 1857
MEMOIRES de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 50 vol.

Mo. Paris, 1701-1793
M EMOIRES (Nonveaux) de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Mo. Paris, (v.y.)
Merimee (P.) La Guerre Sociale Svo. Paris, 1841

Merlin (R. et Grangeret de la Grange) Catalogue de la Bibliotheque de M. de

Sacy, 3 vol. Svo. Paris, 1842-47

Michaud (J.) Bibliotheque des Croisades, 2 vol. Svo. Paris, 1822

Migne, Patrologia Svo. Paris, (v. y.)

MlGNET (M.) Histoire de Marie Stuart, 2 vol. Svo. Paris, 1852

Miller (E.)* Catalogue des Manuscrits Grecs de la Bibliotheque de l'Escurial

Mo. Paris, 1848
Milman (H.H.) History of Latin Christianity, 6 vol. Svo. London, 1854

Mittarelli (J. B.) Bibliotheca Codicum Manuscriptorum Monasterii S. Michselis

Venetiarum Prope Mureanum folio. Venetiis, 1779

Mongitore (A.) Bibliotheca Sicula, 2 vol. folio. Panormi, 1707

Montfaucon (B.de) Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum Manuscriptorum, 2 vol. fol. Par. 1739
Montfaucon, (B. de) Paleographia Gryeca folio. Paris, 1708

Montucla (J. F.) Histoire des Mathematiques, 4 vol. Mo. Paris, An. YIII

Monumenta Historica Britannica, (published by H. Petrie and J. Sharp)

folio. London, 1848
Morelli (J.) Codices Manuscripti Latini et Italici Bibliothecse Nanian?e, 2 vol.

Mo. Venet. 1776
Morelli (J.) Opere notizie di disegno esistenti in Padova, etc. Svo. Bassano, 1800
Moreni (D.) Bibliogralia Storico-Ragionata della Toscana, 2 vol. Mo. Firenze, 1805
MORLEY (W.) Catalogue of the Historical Manuscripts in the Arabic and Persian

Languages preserved in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great

Britain Svo. London, 1856

Morley (W.) Description of a Planispheric Astrolabe folio. London, 1856

Moschini (G.) Della Litteratura Yeneziana, 3 vol. in 2 Mo. Ven. 1806

Muccioli (J. M.) Catalogus Codicum Bibliothecae Manuscriptorum Malatestianse, 2 vol.

folio. Ccesence, 1780
Munk (S.) Palestine Svo. Paris, 1856

Muratori (L. A.) Anecdota, 4 vol. Mo. Mediolan. et Patav. 1697-1713

Muratori (L. A.) Antiquitates, 6 vol. folio. Mediolani, 1738-42

Narbone (A.) Bibliografia Sicola Sistematica, 4 vol. Svo. Palermo, 1850-1857

Neale (J. M.) A general Introduction to the History of the Holy Eastern Church,
2 vol. Svo. London, 1850

Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de le Bibliotheque du Roi Mo. Paris, (v. y.)

Nouveau Traite de Diplomatique, par deux religieux Benedictins, 6 vol.

Mo. Paris, 1750 65

* Although this excellent work is not actually quoted in the Catalogue, we have several
times derived useful information from it. For instance, we found in it an additional proof of the
rarity of the Gregorius de Anima in manuscript, the splendid collection of the Escurial having
only a manuscript of the sixteenth century of that work, of which we have one (No. 430) of the
ninth century.

xlvi LIST OF THE EDITIONS OF THE WOBKS

Nouvelle Biographie Universelle (dirigee par M. Hoefer, et publiee par Messrs. Didot
a, Paris) Svo. Paris, (v. y.)

O'Connor (Ch.) Rerum Hibernicarum scriptores antiqui, 4 vol.

Ato. Buckinghamice, 1814-26
Oudinus (C.) de Scriptoribus Ecclesiae Antiquis, 3 vol. folio. Lipsice, 1722

Palermo (Fr.) i Manoscritti Palatini di Firenze Ato. Firenze, 1853

Panzer (G. W.) Annalen der altern Deutschen Litteratur Ato. Nurnberg, 1788

Panzer (G. W.) Annales Typographici, 11 vol. Ato. Norimb. 1793-1803

Paris (MatthJ Historia Major folio Londini, 1684

Paris (Paulin) Les Manuscrits Francois de la Bibliotheque du Roi, 7 vol.

Svo. Paris, 1836-48
Pasini (J.) * Rivautella et Berta; Codices Manuscript! Bibliothecse Regise Taurinensis,
2 vol. folio. Taurini, 1749

Peregrini (C.) Historia Principum Langobardorum, 5 vol. ho. Neapoli, 1749-54
Persii (A.) Satyrse, etc. (edid. P. Pithoeus) Svo. Lutetian, 1585

Pertz (G. H.) Monumenta Germanise Historica, 14 vol. folio. Hannoverw, 1826-56
Petrarca (F.) Epistohe Familiares Svo. (Geneva??) 1601

Petri Blesensis, Opera, 4 vol. Svo. Oxon. et Lond. 1846

Petrie (H.) Monumenta Historica Britannica folio. London, 1848

Petrus Diaconus de viris illustrib. Cassinensibus Svo. Lut. Paris, 1666

Pez (B.) Thesaurus Anecdotorum, 6 vol. folio Aug. Vindet. 1721-29

Poggiali (C.) Memorie per la Storia Letteraria di Piacenza, 2 vol. Ato. Piacenza, 1789
Poggiali (G.) Serie de Testi di Lingua, 2 vol. Svo. Livorno, 1813

Prisciani Opera (a Krehl), 2 vol. Svo. Lipsice, 1819

Prisciani Opera Minora, edidit F. Lindemannus Svo. Lugdun. Batav. 1818

Putschii (H.) Grammatic33 Latinse auctores Antiqui Ato. Hanoviai, 1605

Quadrio (F. S.) Delia Storia e della ragione d'ogni Poesia, 5 vol. in 7

Ato. Bologna, 1739, 1750
Quetif (J.) et Echard (J.) Scriptores ordinis Prsedicatorum, 2 vol.

folio. Lutetice Parisiorum, 1719-21

Raccolta di tutti i piu rinomati Scrittori dell' Istoria del Regno di Napoli, 23 vol.

Ato. Napoli, 1769-72
Raynouard (F. J. M.) Choix des Poesies des Troubadours, 6 vol. Svo. Par. 1816-21
Redi (Fr.) Lettere Svo. Firenze, 1825

Renzi (S- de) Collectio Salernitana, 4 vol. Svo. Neapoli, 1852-56

Repetti (E.) Dizionario della Toscana, 5 vol. Svo. Firenze, 1833-46

Revue des Deux Mondes Svo. Paris (v.y.)

Riccio (C. M.) Scrittori nati nel Regno di Napoli Ato. Napoli, 1844

Roberto Re di Gerusalemme delle virtu morali. II Tesoretto di Ser Brunetto Latini.
Quattro Canzoni di Bindo Bonichi, con alcune Rime di Petrarca Svo. Torino, 1750
Roscoe (W.) Life of Leo X, 4 vol. Ato. Liverpool, 1805

Routh (Dr.) Opuscula Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, 2 vol. Svo. Oxonii, 1840

Sacro Bosco (J. de) Sphericum Opusculum Ato. Augusta*, 1482

Sacy (Silvestre de) Clirestomathie Arabe, 3 vol. Svo. Paris, 1826-27

Sainte Beuve (C. A.) Port Royal, 3 vol. Svo. Paris, 1840

Sammarthani (Sc. et Lud.) Gallia Christiana, 13 vol. folio Paris. 1715-85

Santarem (Le Vicomte de) Recherches sur les Decouvertes des Portugais, &c. (with a

folio atlas) Svo. Paris, 1842

Santarem (Le Vicomte de) Essai sur l'Histoire de la Cosmographie et de la Carto-

graphie, 3 vol. Svo. Paris, 1849-52

Sartius (M.) De Archigymnasii Bononiensis Professoribus, 2 vol.

folio. Bononiai, 1769
Schilterii (J.) Thesaurus Antiquitatum Teutonicarum, etc. 3 vol.

folio. TJlmai, 1727-28

* In consequence of a misprint at No. 523 of the Catalogue, this work was quoted
Rivautella instead of Pasini, etc.

EMPLOYED IN COMPILING THE CATALOGUE. xlvii

Sceopis (F.) Saggio Storico* degli Stati generali, &c, del Piemonte

Ato. Torino, 1851
Scott (Sir W.) Poetical Works Svo. Edinburgh, 1857

Servii Commentarium in Virgilium folio. Romai (1469-70)

Servii Commentarium in Virgilium (edid. Lion) 2 vol. Svo. Gottingm, 1826

Shaw (H.) Illuminated Ornaments, &c, with Descriptions by Sir Fr. Madden

folio. London, 1843
SniRWOOD (J.) Arithmomachia Ato. {Romas, 1482 ?)

Sigoli (S.) Viaggio al Monte Sinai Svo. Firenze, 1829

Solinus (Julius) De Situ et Memorabilis Orbis folio. Venetiis, 1473

Solini Polyhistor Svo. Biponti, 1790

Soria (Fr.) Memoire degli Storici Napoletani, 2 vol. Mo. Napoli, 1781

Spotorno (G. B.) Storia Letteraria della Liguria, 4 vols. 8vo. Genova, 1824-26

Sprengel (K.) Histoire de la Medicine, 7 vol. Svo. Paris, 1815

Strutt (Jos.) A complete View of the Manners of the Inhabitants of England, 3 vol.

Ato. London, 1775

Tanner (Th.) Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica folio. London, 1748

Targioni Tozzetti (G.) Notizie sulla Storia delle Scienze Fisiche in Toscana

Ato. Firenze, 1852
Tasso (Torquato) Opere, 12 vol. Ato. Venezia, 1722-42

Tasso (Torquato) Trattato della Dignita Svo. Torino, 1838

Terentianus Maurus de Litteris, Syllabis, Pedibus et Metris

Mo. Trajccti ad Rhenum, 1825
Tesaurus Pauperum Ato. Venecia, 1494

Theatrum Chemicum, 6 vol. Svo, Argentorati, 1659

Theodorus (Fl.) M.) De Metris Svo. Lugd. Bat. 1766

Tiraboschi (G.) Bibliotheca Modenese, 6 vol. Ato. Modena, 1781-86

Tiraboschi (G.) Storia della letteratura Italiana, 8 vol. Svo. Venezia, 1795

Toppi (N.) Biblioteca Napoletana folio. Napoli, 1678

Traversarii (A.) Latinse Epistolse (a L. Mehus), 2 vol. folio. Florentim, 1759

Trucchi (Francesco)f Poesie Italiane inedite di dugenti autori dalF origine della lingua,
4 vol. Svo. Prato, 1846-47

Ughi (L.) Dizionario Storico degli uomini illustri Ferraresi, 2 vol. in 1

Svo. Ferrara, 1804

Van Praet (J.) Catalogue des livres imprimes sur velin (de la Bibliotheque du roi, et
d'autres Bibliotheques), 10 vol. Svo. Paris, 1822-28

Varro (M. Terentius) De Lingua Latina (a Muellero.) Svo. Lipsice, 1833

Vedova (G.) Biogratia degli Scrittori Padovani, 2 vol. in 7 parts Svo. Padova, 1832
Venturi (G.) Memorie e Lettere inedite finora disperse di Galileo Galilei, 2 vol.

Ato. Modena, 1818
Vermiglioli (G. B.) Biogratia degli Scrittori Perugini, 2 vol. Ato. Perugia, 1829

Villani (F.) Vite d'Uomini illustri Fiorentini Ato. Venezia, 1747

Villani (G.) Storia Ato. Firenza, 1587

Villemain, Tableau de la Litterature du Moyen Age, 2 vol. Svo. Paris, 1841

Vincentii Speculum Naturale folio. Venetiis, 1494

Virgilii Opera, cum Servii Probique commentariis Svo. Venetiis, 1534

Virgilius (edid. Heyne), 4 vol. Svo. Lipsiai, 1803

Vita di S. Hieronymo Ato. Tarvisio, 1480

Vite de Santi Padri, 4 vol. Svo. Bologna, 1823

Vocabolario dell' Academica della Crusca, 6 vol. folio. Firenze, 1729-38

Voyage Litteraire de deux Religieux Benedictins, 2 vol. Ato. Paris, 1717

Waddingi (L.) Scriptores ordinis pra3dicatorum folio. Rornae, 1806

Wenrick (J. G.) de Auctorum Grsecorum versionibus Syriacis, Arabicis, etc.

Svo. Lipsim, 1842
Whewell (W.) History of the Inductive Sciences, 3 vol. Svo. London, 1837

This eminent Author published other works on similar subjects, which we regret we
were not able to procure.

t At No. 865 of this Catalogue, the name of this editor was by mistake printed Truchi.

xlviii LIST OF THE EDITIONS, &c.

Witte (C.) Nuove Correzioni al Convito di Dante Alighieri Ato. Lipsia, 1854

Woepcke (F.) L'Algebre d'Omar Alkhayyami Svo. Paris, 1851

Wood (A.) Athenae Oxonienses, 4 vol. Ato. London, 1813-20

Wood (A.) The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, etc* (published
by J. Gutch), 5 vol. Ato. Oxford, 1786-96

Yriarte (J.) Codices MSS. Grseci Eegise Bibliotheca? Matritensis folio. Matriti, 1767

Zacharia (Fr. A.) Bibliotheca Pistoriensis folio. Aug. Taur. 1752

Zacharia (F. A.) Excursus Litterarii per Italiam, 2 vol. 4to. Venetiis, 1754

Zanetti (A. M.) et Ant. Bongiovanni, Grseca, Latina, et Italica, D. Marci Bibliotheca
2 vol. folio. Venetiis, 1740-41

Zeno (Apostolo) Dissertazioni Vossiane, 2 vol. Ato. Venezia, 1752

Ziegelbauer, Historia Litteraria Ordinis S. Benedict!, 4 vol. fol. Augustcc-Vind. 1754

LIST OF THE F AC-SIMILES,

WITH IHE

PREFERENCES TO THE MANUSCRIPTS. (*)

Number in the
Catalogue.

101— See Plate I.

102— See Plate II.

103— See Plate III.

104— See Plates III. and XIV.

105— See Plate IV.

Ill- -See Plate XXIII.

139— See Plate V.

140— See Plate VI.

160— Seef Plates I, VII, XVI,XXIX,

XXX, and XXXIV.
174— See Plate II.
217— See Plate XI.
229— See Plate XXXVI.
265— See Plate V.
269— See Plate XXI.
298— See Plates III, XVIII, and

XXVII.
299- See* Plates X. and XXVI.
313— See Plate XXX.
320— See Plate XVII.
354— See Plate XI.
355— See Plate XXXI.
356— See Plates VI. and XXXI.

Number in the
Catalogue.

357— See Plate III.
358— See Plate XXXV.
359— See Plates XXVI. and

XXXVII.
399— See Plates I. and XXII.
424— See Plate XXVII.
430— See Plate XXIII.
431— See Plate V.
432— See Plate XIII.
433— See Plate XXV J.
477— See Plate IX.
483— See Plate XXIX.
486— See Plate VII.
490— See Plate XVII.
491— See Plate XX.
495— See Plate V. and XIII.
496— See Plate XII.
522— See Plates VIII. and XXIII.
523— See Plates X. and XI.
525— See Plate XXIV.
534-See Plate XXVI.
540— See See Plates XL and XXIII.
541— See Plate XX.

* In this list the Roman numerals refer to the progressive numbers of the plates, in each of
which the Arahic figures indicate the numher of the Manuscript in the Catalogue, from which
the facsimile was taken.

f In a few copies the No. 160 (page 38 of the Catalogue) his been erroneously printed 161,
but every one will see it is a misprint, and that the .facsimiles numbered 160 in the plates
I, VII, XVI, XXIX, XXX, and XXXIV, refer to the Biblia, in two volumes, described pages 38
and 39 of the Catalogue, with the note: See facsimile at the end.

% By a misprint in some of the copies of plate X, the No. 299 was erroneously printed 490.

1

LIST OF FAC-SIMILES.

Number in the
Catalogue.

542— See Plate IV.

544— See Plate II.

545_See Plate II.

54G— See Plates VI, XXVIII, and

XXXI.
554— See Plate X. and XXVIII.
556— See Plate III.
562— See Plates XV. and XXIX.
573— See Plate XXII.
586— See Plate XXVI.
595— See Plates XX. and XXVI.
596— See Plate XXVII.
597— See Plate VII.
626— See Plate XIII.
665— See Plates XXIV. and XXIX.
683— See Plate XIV.
689— See Plate XXX.
721— See Plate XIII.
744— See Plate XVII.
747— See Plate XV.
748— See Plate XX.
760— See Plates XX. and XXI.

767— See Plate XX.

769— See Plates XIII. and XVI.

770— See Plate XI.

780— See Plate XV.

784— See Plates XXX. and XXXI.

785— See Plate XXXI.

786— See Plate IX.

792— See Plate VII.

804— See Plate V.

805— See Plate XVII.

Number in the
Catalogue.

807— See Plate I.
826-See Plate XXXII.
827— See Plate XXXIII.
833-SeePlates XXXV,and XXXVI.
840— See Plate XV.
841— See Plate XIV.
842— See Plate XXVI.
844-See Plates XXIV, and XXVIII.
851— See Plate XVI.
870— See Plate XXXI.
891— See Plate VII.
892— See Plate XXXVI.
936— See Plate XXIV.
981— See Plate I.
982— See Plate XXII.
988— See Plate VII.*
993— See Plate XXVII.
1028— See Plate XV.
1053— See Plate XIII.
1054— See Plate XX.
1055— See Plate XX.
1074— See Plate XV.
1103— See Plates XX. and XXXVI.
1111— Seef Plates XIX, XXIV, XXV,

and XXIX.
1112— See Plates IV, XVIII, and XIX.
1113— See Plate XXV.
1114— See Plates X. and XXIV.
1116- See Plate XXIV.
1118— See Plate XXXVI.
1130— See Plates II. and XXIX.

* Besides the facsimile of the characters, we have given in the same Plate VII. a figure
showing, in a reduced proportion, the singular size of this curious manuscript.

f By a misprint in some of the copies of Plate XXIV, the No. 1111 was erroneously
printed 111.

The fac-similes were made hy Mr. E. W. Ashhee, of the firm of Ashbee & Dangerfield,
22, Bedford Street, Covent Garden.

CATALOGUE

OP

THE LIBRI COLLECTION

OE

MANUSCRIPTS,

IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES.

FIRST DAY'S SALE.

LOT

1 'Abd-al-'Ali Bif-Mithammad Barjandi, the " Sharh-i- Usturlab : " A

Treatise, in Persian, on the Astrolabe and the Sphere

Mo. iS^ic. xvii. ON PAPER

Written in the Naskh character, with Diagrams and Tables, on 137 leaves. This
astronomical Treatise is very interesting, as the author says that he has
borrowed largely from another treatise called Blst Bab (the twenty chap-
ters) by the celebrated Nasir-al-Dln Tusi, whose works the writer claims
to have studied. This work explains also the motions of the stars and the
principles of astronomy. The numerical figures of the astronomical tables
are generally alphabetical in this manuscript. The work was written
during the reign of Abu-al-Fatah Sultan Mahmiid Shah Khuda Bunda,
proclaimed King of Persia, a.d. 1577, whose miraculous escape from his
brother's hatred, and subsequent reign may be seen in Malcolm's History
of Persia (vol. I. p. 516).

In the Bibliotheque Orientate, D'Herbelot does not speak of this work of
'Abd-al-'Ali, which must be very scarce, as it is not included in the list of
Oriental works on this subject, given by Mr. Morley in his excellent
"Description of a Planispheric Astrolabe," (p. 2-3). The work of Nasir-
al-DIn Tusi, from which 'Abd-al-'Ali took his treatise, is also very scarce.
It is mentioned (under the title of Bait Bab) by D'Herbelot, and quoted
by Jourdain in his " Memoire sur l'Observatoire de Megarah," (Magazin
Encycl. 1809, vol. VI. p. 97,) but we have been unable to see a copy to
compare with the work of 'Abd-al-'Ali. A copy (in twenty chapters) is in
the Medicean Library at Florence.

2 'Abd-al-G-hani al-Nablis! (Shaikh) the " Bihlat-al-Tarabuliis," in

Arabic : Account of a Voyage from Damascus to Tripoli, made in
the beginning of the Mohammedan month, " Babl'-al-awwal," Anno
Hegirse 1112 (a.d. 1700) 4<to. S^:c. xviii. on paper

This is a curious relation. The author poetically describes the beauty of the
places at which he arrives — the luncheons and the good honey, &c. — and
sometimes, inspired by the beauty of the scenery, as well as by a good
dinner, he is induced to write in verse. But the greatest value of this
Manuscript is derived from a large collection of poems on the praises of

B

5 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

Mohammed and other subjects, which form the second portion of it.
These poems were written by very numerous poets, all Andalusi (natives
of Andalusia, or of Spain generally according to D'Herbelot) in the time
of the greatest splendour of the Arabian sovereigns of Spain. The names
of all these Arabo-Spanish poets are here given, such as Abi-al-Hujjaj
Yusuf Ibn Miisa ; Shaikh Abi-Zaid ; Ibn al-Jiyan ; Abii-al-Yaman Ibn
'Usakir; Abu-al -Kasim Sa'ad Ibn Muhammad; Abu-'Abd- Allah Ibnlmran;
and many others. D'Herbelot in the Bibliotheque Orientate under the
heading " Ketab Schoara Andalous " speaks of a work on the Arab poets,
natives of Spain, written by " Abul Valid Abdallah," who died Anno
Hegirse 403 (a.d. 1013).

So large a collection of ancient Spanish poets, in Arabic, is of the utmost
rarity. [n the great " Catalogus Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae
Parisiensis," (vol. I. p. 245) there is a portion only of a collection of Ara-
bian poets (including the Spanish) made by " Homadiddin " of Ispahan,
and another portion of the same collection is described in the admirable
Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts at the British Museum, by the Rev.
W. Cureton (p. 273) ; but our collection seems quite a different one.
Baron Silvestre de Sacy in his rich collection had only a few single speci-
mens of the Spanish Arabic literature. They are ably described in
the excellent Catalogue of his library by M. Merlin and M. Grangeret dl
la Grange (MSS. p. 32-33). Independently of the interest derived from
the fact that these celebrated Arabian poems were written on European
soil at a period when Christian Europe was involved in darkness, the
Arabo-Spanish poets are well known even to incipient Orientalists. It was
a quotation made by D'Herbelot of two beantiful lines of one of them,
Zaidun, which reduced Sir W. Jones almost to despair, and induced him to
suggest a new system of orthography for Asiatic words. (See also No. 1079
in the present Catalogue).

3 'Abd-al-GhanI (Effendi) A Treatise in Turkish, on the Signs of the

Zodiac and of the Time when the Sun enters each, with Prayers,
Religious Charms, &c. (in prose and verse) 4*to. S.&C. xviii. on paper

This curious work is both astronomical and astrological, with several astro-
nomical tables ; it contains, as an example, the horoscope of Solomon.
The volume contains also some prayers and extracts in Arabic and in
Persian. In his " Catalogus Codicum MSS. Orientalium Bibl. Medicese,"
Assemanni mentions three anonymous Turkish Kalendaria, quite different
from the present, the author of which asserts his descent from the great
Shah 'Abbas.

4 'Abd-al-Rah!m Bin- Ahmad Sur, " Kashf-al-Lughat :" A popular Arabic

and Persian Dictionary folio. Sjbc. xviii. on paper

The work is valuable, full and complete. This copy was made at Gujarat,
Anno Hegirse 1124, (a.d. 1711.) Haji Khalfa refers to this Dictionary in
his Lexicon (vol. V. p. 214).

5 Abel (N. H.) Precis d'une Theorie des Fonctions Elliptiques

4<to. SJEC. xix. ON PAPER

An autograph manuscript (with the author's signature at the beginning) of this
Norwegian mathematician, who died when only twenty-six years old, and
whose admirable discoveries in the elliptical functions will be recorded as
long as mathematics are held in honour. This Manuscript, consisting of
fifty-six columns besides four pages of introduction, contains many cor-
rections and alterations, which have never been printed in the Journal
de M. Crelle, where this Precis was published.

G Abel (N. H.J Demonstration d'une Propriete generale d'une certaine
Classe de Eonctions transcendantes Mo. 1829, on paper

In the author's handwriting, with a short German note, dated Christiana,
6 Jan. 1829, respecting the printing of this Demonstration and the illness
of his intended bride, also in his autograph with signature. Abel died on
the 6th of April, 1829.

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7 Abu-Nasr-al-'Utbi, the"Kitab-al-Yamlm;'or"T^lrIkll-al-'UtbI:', A His-

tory, in Arabic, of the Kings of Khorasan, copied iVnno Hegirse 1075
(a.d. 1664), bound in sheep, ivith case Mo. S^c. xvii. on paper

This work begins with the coronation of Yamln-al-Daulah Amin-al-Millut,
in the year 365 of the Hegira. The history of Khorasan, where so many
interesting remains of the ancient Persians are still in existence, is almost
entirely unknown. In his History of Persia, Malcolm only says that in
the year 967 of the Hegira (a.d 357.) during the intestine wars of Persia
the family of Shemgur made themselves independent in Khorasan.

8 Abu-Nasr Muhammad Ibn 'Abd-al-Hahman Hamadam, (Imam)

" Kitfib-al-Sab'Iyfit," in Arabic, recording everything computed by
Sevens (" God has created everything by Sevens," 7 week days,
7 heavens, 7 countries, &c.) in the Naskh character, S^;c. xiv —
Arabic Grammar, by the Author of the " Kitab-al-'Arab," copied
Anno Hegirse 916 (a.d. 1510)
Oriental binding Ado. S^ec. xiv. and xvi. ON paper

Both unpublished. The work on the number 7 is very curious, and contains
much historical, geographical, and astronomical information. It is an
ancient and interesting manuscript. The Arabic Grammar is deficient at
the beginning.

9 Abu-Talib, Persian Grammar Mo. S^ic. xix. on paper

An original Persian manuscript in the author's autograph, written by him Anno
Hegirse 1218 (a.d. 1802) during his sojourn in London, but never published.

10 Adriani (Marcelli) Ennarationes in Demetrium Phaleraeum

autograph MS. 8vo. S^c. xvii. ON paper

The " Commentarii in Demetrium Phaleraeum," by M. Adriani, who died in
1604, were edited in 1562, but these Enarrationes seem still unpublished.

11 iEaiDius (Columna) Romanus, Ord. Fratrum Eremitarum S. Augustini,

de E-egimine Principum
very distinctly written, in the original binding, Mo. $mc. xiv. on telltjm

iEgidius Columna, one of the most learned divines of his time, died at Avignon
in 1316. This work was formerly very celebrated and popular.

12 ^Egidit Monachi Instituta de Pulsibus (Versibus composita cum Glossis

interlinearibus) — Constantini Aeri Monachi Cassinensis (vel

potius Isaaci Israelitse) Viaticum de Signis, Causis et Curis iEgritu-

dinum cum Glossis Girardi ? fol. Sjsc. xiv. on yellum

This Manuscript is finely written in two different Italian hands, and the work

of Constantinus is in double columns. At the beginning there are ancient

prescriptions for making various colours ; and at the end some medical

recipes.

According to Leland and Tanner, JEgidius, or Giles the Monk, was an
Englishman living towards the end of the twelfth century, who first settled
at Paris as Professor of Medicine, and subsequently entered the Order of
S. Dominic (or rather S*- Benedict according to Leyser). Fabricius calls
him a Greek, on the authority of Trithemius, and he must have been an
Athenian if we credit Hendreich. In the Leipzig Library are manuscripts
styling him Corboliensis. In France he is generally considered as a
Frenchman. For further information respecting iEgidius, see Hist. Litt. de
la France, (vol. XII, XVI, and XXI,) and Leyser, {Hist. Poet. p. 499.)
According to an excellent article published in the "Biographical Dictionary
of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" all the discrepancies
and doubts relating to iEgidius Corboliensis arise from his having been
confounded with iEgidius de Sancto iEgidio, an Oxford Dominican Pro-
fessor. In this manuscript the poem de Pulsibus differs considerably from
a 4to. edition printed without place or date during the fifteenth century,
which we compared with it.
Constantine the African was a celebrated physician, who translated

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4 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

largely from the Arabic, and this Viaticum is supposed to have been
written in that language by Ishak-Ben-Honain, a famous Jewish doctor,
and rendered into Latin by Constantine, after he became a Benedictine
monk in the Monastery at Monte Cassino. Concerning his wonderful
travels and unceasing exertions to introduce the Arabian sciences amongst
the Christians, see Petrus Diaconus (De viris illust. Cassinensib. p. 45),
and chiefly the excellent Collectio Salernitana, by M. De Renzi. (See also
Nos. 279 and 280 in the present Catalogue.)

Respecting the Viaticum we must add that not only are the glosses of
the present manuscript quite different from the glosses of Gerard us de
Cremona, contained in the Manuscript described in No. 279, but that
also the text of the Viaticum differs considerably in the two manuscripts,
as will be ascertained at once by comparing the beginning of that work,
taken from both Manuscripts.

Present Manuscript. Manuscript No. 279.

" Quidem ut in rethoricis tullius omne " Quoniam quidem ut ait in rethoricis

in quid experiendumvel propter sevel tullius omne inquit vel propter se vel

[propter aliud vel propter utrunque propter aliud vel propter utrumque

expetitur." expetitur experiendum."

And it differs also from the manuscript No. 280, which commences thus :

" Quoniam quidem in theoricis ait Tullius omne in quid est petendum vel propter
aliud vel propter se vel propter utrumque expetitur."

13 iEsopi Fabulae Latinis Versibus expressse 4fo. S^ec. xiv. ON" yellum

Respecting this version of ^Esop's Fables, which begins : "Ut juvet et prosit conatur
pagina prsesens," see Morelli (Cod. Lat. Bibl. Nan. p. 152), and the
excellent Catalogue of the Bibl. Grenvilliana, (vol. I, p. 8). According to
a note on the fly-leaf this manuscript contains some Fables not printed in
the " iEsopus moralisatus." It belonged, during the XlVth or XVth
century, to " Bertus Nicholai de Rosarmia de Pisis," and was written in
Italy, probably at Pisa, during the first period of the XlVth century.
It contains some curious rude ornaments.

14 iEsopi Fabulse — Amoeni vel Prudentii Liber Evse Columbae (Enchi-

ridion Historiarum Novi et Veteris Testament!) — Liber Cartula? —
Theodtjli Ecloga " Ethiopum terras jam fervid a torruit sestas,"
cum Glossis — Liber Faceti — Joanjsts Chrisostomi Liber de VII
Virtutibus et Viciis (metrice).
calf extra, gilt edges, tooled sides 4<to. SiEC. xiv. on yellxjm

A valuable manuscript, containing several curious old poems, and affording im-
portant various readings. The iEsop is the same Version, and generally
agrees with the preceding manuscript which, however, contains several
lines not in the present Concerning the " Liber Evae," see Leyser (Hist.
Poet.\). 11.); see also No. 147 in the present Catalogue. The beginning of
the Liber Cartuke is :

" Cartula nra tibi portat ranalde salutes
Plura videbis ibi si non hec dona refutes."
which shows it to be the same work (with curious variations, for instance the
name oiRanaldus which does not occur in Fabricius) as the Speculum Mundi,
attributed to Bernardus Morlanensis, who lived about 1140 (see Fabricius
Bibl. Lat. vol. II, p. 254). In the Ecloga of Theodulus this manuscript affords
many valuable emendations of the Text as printed in the Manuale Biblicum
of Goldastus, and as these excellent various readings agree exactly with the
specimen published by Leyser (Hist. Poet. p. 296) we have every reason to be-
lieve that this is the identical manuscript so much praised by him. Respect-
ing the age in which this Theodulus lived, there is a great discrepancy
amongst biographers, some of them assigning him to the fifth, and others,
with more probability, to the ninth century.

The Liber Faceti appears to be a totally different Poem from that cited
by Fabricius in his " Bibliotheca Latina media? et infimse -ZEtatis," (vol. II,
p. 138) as commencing: " Cum nihil utilius humanse credo saluti," for this
begins thus : " Moribus et vita quisquis vult esse facetus," and is an

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obscene poem, similar to the Liber de Vetula, attributed to Ovid, and
perhaps of the same time. See also Nos. 236 and 537 in the present
Catalogue.

The Liber de VII virtutibus, which begins as follows : '•' Ardua virtu-
tum facile cape lector ad usus," is written in a different and more ancient
hand, and contains on the margins a very curious old drawing. Some old
interlineary glosses on the first leaves contain an Italian translation of the
most difficult words.

15 Agnolella da Foligno, Libro chiamato " Lume amoroso divino"

folio. S^ec. xiv. (mcccviiii) on paper

A very curious manuscript, containing the revelations of Agnola (or Agnolella)
da Foligno, written by herself. This singular work, which has remained
totally unknown to the various historians of Italian literature, begins as
follows : " Nel nome d. y.u ho povero disprezzato et vostro hobediente
nell' afio m.ccc0. del segnore et el primo di de marzo una dona chiamata
Agnolella de la cita de Foligne (sic) essedo giovene et estando col suo marito
comezo ad avere espiratione divine. ..et copuse questo libro. ..et prima dice
de se medesima che estando col suo marito no adava cOtinoamete ne
devotamete et atetamete alle predicationi tame io andava espesso alia ghiese
degli frati....Et allora essedo io espirata da lo spirito sco," etc. This
work consists of forty-seven leaves, written in double columns, and exhibits
at the bottom of several pages a singular mixture of signatures and numerical
figures.

16 Ahmad-i-KermanI, " Diwan-i- Ahmad," Persian Poems

4ttO. SiEC. xvi. ON INDIA PAPER

Unpublished. These Poems, though esteemed by Orientals as nearly equal to
those of Hafiz, are exceedingly scarce. The author, a native of Kerrmin
(Caramania), was the intimate friend of Tamerlane. D'Herbelot, who (at
the words Kerman and Timour) speaks of the three poems on Alexander,
on Tlmiir, and on Chinghiz Khan, by Ahmad-i-Kermani, did not know
of this Dlwan.

17 Ahmad ab ad (Exact Measurement of the Fort of), with names of the

towns and villages, amount of revenue, nature of produce, number
of police stations, law-courts, and other public buildings, their cost,
&c, and a general statistical description of the whole Province of
Gujarat, in Persian folio. ^>mc. xvii. on paper

An unpublished Statistical Report of considerable importance. In the Nasta'lik
character.

18 Aiimad-Ein-Yusue Abu-al-'Aebas-al-Damashki, "Akhbar-al-Dawal wa-

athar-al-awwal," or Universal History, including an Account of the
Mohammedan Dynasties to the year mviii. of the Hegira (a.d. 1599),
and of the Remains of the Ancients, in Arabic
in red sheep 4do. SiEC. xvii. ON paper

A fine early manuscript but slightly wormed. The author, who was called Al-
Damashkl from the place of his birth, is one of the best of the Arabian
Historians and was the contemporary of the famous Shah 'Abbas, with
whose reign he concludes his work, which has never been printed, and
which is mentioned by Hajl Khalfa (vol. I, p. 186).

19 AexImas, (or Aklimiis) the " Kitab-al-Kudais," containing " a full

and particular record of what I the author, Aklimas, was taught
by the Apostle Simon Peter, (whose disciple I was) in regard to
the Christian faith ; with an account of the History of the World,
from its creation to the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, including his
life and death, and also of what is to happen on this earth in future
until the Day of Judgment ; the same having been all imparted
to Peter by the Lord Jesus himself. Written originally by me the

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said Aklimas, who finished this record on Juma'rat (Thursday) the
23rd of Haziran, in the year of Alexander the Great, 367 (a.d. 53)."
Arabic, in the Naskh character folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper

A curious and valuable manuscript, having a few leaves at the beginning and
end supplied in a more recent writing. This Apocryphal Bible, containing
a Pseudo-Gospel and Apocalypse, (professing to have been written imme-
diately after the death of Jesus Christ ) seems totally unknown to every
writer on the real or spurious Gospels and sacred Books, the name even
of Aklimas having escaped D'Herbelot and all other Bibliographers which
we have perused. To give an idea of this curious work, written no
doubt by a Christian with all the eastern imagination, we subjoin the
translation of a portion of the narration of the celebrated contest of
St. Peter with Simon the Sorcerer, or Simon Magus, taken from this book
(leaf 126), which bears a strong resemblance to the Arabian Nights.

" And the two Angels said to me, Peter, arise and mount. What shall I mount?
said I. They answered, mount this cloud. I then mounted the cloud, and found
it splendidly furnished like a chariot for a Bride. The cloud flew as soon as I
mounted, and I felt at once that I was heing carried towards Rome. In the
twinkling of an eye we saw a large city, and on asking the two Angels about it,
they then answered me, that it was Wareeon, the city in which Paul had preached
and which I had so much desired to see. I here heard loud voices saying, come
out, let us meet the founder of the Church and the head of the Apostles, Peter.
I then descended from the cloud at the gate of the city, and saw a large crowd of
people, who had come out to meet me. The priests with wax candles in their
hands, and others with incense vessels sending out a beautiful odour, approached
with prayers and offerings. On meeting them, they worshipped me, and also asked
me to bless them, which I did. I then asked them how they were, and they
answered they were well, with the help of our Lord Jesus Christ, adding that there
was no oil in their city, or any olives in their neighbourhood. ' We beg of you,'
they said, ' to pray to God who is most merciful, to produce in this our city the
olive-tree, in order that Ave may use the oil for Baptism and lamps.' I then
prayed for this, and at once the olive-trees grew out and multiplied by the order of
the Lord, and they became more numerous than in Syria. I also asked the Lord
to banish the lions, the bears, the insects, and every injurious and corrupt thing,
and was also answered and helped in this by Jesus Christ. I dwelt long in this
city. * * * * I went also in the cloud to Rome, and recommenced the good work,
preaching to the people, and calling on them to believe in Christ, and the Believers
grew and multiplied every day, and became more and more zealous in the Lord.

" Simon the Sorcerer became then very jealous of us, and wished to oppose us,
following, as usual, his tricks, intrigues, and deceit.

" So, one day, he brought a bull, and spoke in Ins ear, and the bull died imme-
diately. We were then both sent for by the King of Rome. I went with my
followers to the King. Simon then said tome, in the presence of the King, 'make
this bull come to life, for you say that you are capable of performing miracles.' I
answered, ' let the man who killed the bull give him life again.' The King said,
' Simon has done a great miracle in killing the bull with his words, you and your
friends must make him arise again by your speech.' Simon then left us, and went
home. Then Paul turned to me and said, 'why should we hesitate and wait any
longer?' I then prayed to the Holy Spirit, and made on the bull the sign of the
cross, and said, ' in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, whom the Jews crucified at
Jerusalem, I call on thee to rise from the dead.' Then the bull rose at once as
full of life as before. When the people saw this miracle, they glorified God. I
then said to the bull, ' go to Simon the Sorcerer, and say to him that the Disciples
of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Virgin Mary, call for you.' The bull went at once,
followed by many people, to the house of Simon the Sorcerer, and spoke to him
with eloquence and force of language, commanding him to come; and many
believed on that day.

" Simon the Sorcerer came with the bull to the Palace. The King was on his
throne, and he said to Simon the Sorcerer, ' see you what these people, the ■ Dis-
ciples of Jesus Christ crucified, have done?' Then Simon the Sorcerer answered,
' Do not think much of these people, I can do what neither they nor any other can ;
I will ascend to heaven.' He then called the evil spirits, who always surrounded
and helped him, and spoke to them whilst I was looking at him. He went up into
the air, and called out to me, ' Peter, is this enough, or shall I go up higher? ' I said,
' I wish you to ascend a little higher.' Then he mounted, the people looking
on him, until many of them could see him no more. Then Paul said to me,

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• 0 ! my Lord and pious Master, it is not time now to hesitate and wait submitting
to tire deceit of this Sorcerer. Let us unmask him.'

" Then the Spirit moved me, and I raised my head to the heavens, and
said to the evil Spirits — ' In the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living
and eternal God, let go your hands which support him.' The evil Spirits let go,
and he fell to the ground, and was broken, and not one of his bones remained
sound, and his brains came out of his nostrils, and all his body was scattered to
the wind. The people called out with prayers and glory to our Lord Jesus
Christ, and we in that day baptised innumerable persons.' "

From this fragment it is evident that the author calling himself Aklimas, and the
author of the "Acta Petri et Pauli Apostolorum " (the real or pseudo Marcel-
lus, concerning whom see Fabricius Cod. Apocr. Nov. Test. vol. III. p. 633)
worked upon the same tradition, and although we are unable to assign the
priority of invention to either, Aklimas seems to have amplified the sub-
ject greatly, and has at once compiled a spurious Bible, a spurious Gospel,
a spurious Book of Acts, and last, not least, a spurious Apocalypse.

We learn from Cave (Antiquitates Apostolicce, vol. I, p. 159) that St. Peter was
supposed to be the author of a Gospel, Acts and Apocalypse, the latter
rejected by the ancients as spurious, but read, as Sozomen informs us, in
some churches in Palestine in his time. The Acts are mentioned by
Origen, Eusebius, and others as supposititious. Serapion, Bishop of
Antioch, suffered the gospel to be read in his church, believing it at
first genuine, but after a more careful perusal he rejected it as apocryphal.
Is the work of Aklimas composed, in some measure at least, from those
old apocryphal works? (See also No. 769 hi the present Catalogue.)

20 Alani (' De Insulis') Doctrinale — Petei Hispani (Johannis XXI.) Dia-

lectics "Deo Gracias Anno dfii 1455" — Supposiciones Confusiones —
Auctoritates et Flores secundum Ordinem Alphabeti — Tractatus
de Obedientia, Humilitate, &c. — De Excommunicato non vitandis,
(a.d. 1435) — Speculum Amatorum Mundi — Veritas Veritatum
(Poenia) — Collacio coram P. Innocentio et alia

8VO. SiEC. XV. ON PAPER

From the Carthusian monastery of Erfurth. The Doctrinale is a poem on Latin
grammar, by Alan of the Isles, (a Scotchman according to Dempster, in
insula Mona natus, but it is well known that Dempster contrived to make
every author a Scotchman) and quite different from the Doctrinale altum,
(" rectius Doctrinale minus," says Fabricius) which commences "A Phcebo
Phoebe lumen capit, dtc." instead of as this, " Scribere clericulis." It is not
mentioned by Fabricius or Leyser. There is much obscurity as regards the
various authors of the name of Alanus, who lived in the middle of the
twelfth century. (See Hist. Litt. vol. XIV, p. 355.)

21 Alberti Magni, Ordinis Fratrum Prsedicatorum, de anima libri tres

4ito. SiEC. XV. ON PAPER

Published in the third volume of the edition of the work of this author, printed
at Lyons, in twenty-one folio volumes, in 1651,

22 Alberti Magni, Ordinis Fratrum Prsedicatorum, Compendium Theo-

logical Veritatis ; accedunt perpulchra Miracula B. Mariae Virginis
in the original binding, with brass bosses 4<to. S^c. xv. (1477) on paper

Prefixed is another Treatise, in the same handwriting, entitled, " In Agenda
Mortuorum" at the end of which is " Sermo pro mortuis Fratris Pauli de
Cumis Ordinis Praidicatorum" an author totally unknown to Quetif.
This volume was written in 1477, by " Presb. Franciscus Captaneus
(Cattaneo) de Placentia in quadam cella quae Sancta Justina nuncupatur."
The Miracula at the end are really, perpulchra.

23 Alberto (P. Gio. Andrea, " della Compagnia di Giesu") II Sole Ligure

nella Casa Lercara Oratione detta al S. Gio. Batt. Lercaro Doge
della Bepublica di Genova l'Anno 1643 — Ejusdem Lercariorum
Elogia Poetica, (illustrated ivith 9 large engraved portraits of the
Lercari family, prooes which are vert rare) folio, 1643, on paper
An autograph manuscript of this celebrated Jesuit, with the License for printing
the work, which appears to have been published at Genova, in 1644.

8 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

24 Albini Heremitse Epistola ad Heribertum Coloniensem Episcopum de

diversis Yirtutibus 8vo. SiEC. xv. on paper

Albinus the Hermit must have lived about the year 1000, as Heribert was
Bishop of Cologne from 999 to 1021. This work is mentioned by Fabri-
cius (Bibl. Lat.Med. vol.1, p. 52) as existing in manuscript in the library of
St. Peter's, at Hamburg. See also Ziegelbauer {Hist. Litt. Ord. S. Benedicti,
vol. I. p. 503.)

25 Albtthali Astrologi Liber in Scientia Judiciorum Astrorum — A lbtjmaz ab

de Annomm Revolutionibus — Astrologia incerti Auctoris

folio. S^c. xv. ON PAPEB

This manuscript with diagrams was written in the year 1480, which date will be
found at the end of the Treatise of Albumazar, having the following
colophon : " 1480. — Deo Gracias. — Liber Revolutionum est translatus de
Grseco in Latinum a Magistro Steffano. Messanse. anno xpi dni. 1262."
This is a curious instance of an Arabic author translated into Latin from
the Greek at a very early period. In all probability this Steffanus was
no other than the celebrated Italian poet, Stefano pronotaro da Messina,
who, according to Mongitore, lived about 1262, and whose poems were
quoted by Dante, but whose translation from the Greek nobody seems to
have known, as they remained unknown even to Padre Narbone, who
recently published a learned bibliographical work on the Sicilian Authors,
in four volumes. At the end of the first work there is the following
subscription : " Iste est liber intitulatus Alboali Alcanah translatus de
Arabico in Latinum a Platone Thiburtino in civitate Barcelania cum laude
Dei et in ejus adjutorio qui factus est anno Arabum 530(?), etc." In
his learned biography of Platone Tiburtino Prince Boncompagni only
mentions from the ancient " Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum Angliae
et Hibernia?," tYiQExcerpta ex libro Abohali, translated by Platone Tiburtino ;
but this translation of the Liber in scientia judiciorum astrorum seems to be
quite unknown, for it cannot be the work of Ptolomaeus Affaludhi, quoted
by Prince Boncompagni, as this last work, divided into four books, is quite
different from the work contained in the present Manuscript.

26 Alchemie : " Cy commence le Livre appelle Tmage de Vie traictant des

Secrez des Philosophes sur la fleur d' Alchemie"

4itO. SMC. XV. ON PAPER

Written at the end of the fifteenth century, and illustrated with numerous
coloured drawings of Furnaces, Stills, Retorts and other Instruments used
in Alchemy. At the end are various additional secrets in a different
handwriting of about the same period. This Manuscript contains a general
treatise of chemistry, very slightly tinged with the dreams of the ancient
Alchemists. The description it contains of real chemical operations and
preparations is extremely useful for the history of chemical science, and the
drawings (several hundred in number) representing the whole of the instru-
ments used at that time (amongst which we find scales, bellows, various
descriptions of filters, improved furnaces, &c.) render this Manuscript of
peculiar interest.

27 Alchemy : Das Buch genannt die kostlichest Gaab Gottes gemacht

durch Franciscum Epimetbium 4to. Sjec. xviii. on paper

28 Alchemy: " Kitab fi 'Ilm-al-Klmiya," An Anonymous Treatise on

Alchemy — Another Treatise on Natural History and Alchemy, being
a translation from the Khorasani, of a work by Astanis (or Ostanes)
copied the same year as above, Anno Hegirae 706 (a.d. 1306) —
Arabic Notes of a more recent date
half bound 4<to. Smc. xiv. ON paper

Ostanes, or Otanes, as Herodotus spells the name, (Utana in the Behistun
inscriptionj was one of the Magi who lived prior to the time of Homer,
and is supposed to have been the Master of Zoroaster. Pliny, {Hist. Nat.
lib. XXX, §§ 2, 3, et 5) however, makes him posterior to Homer, placing

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him in the reign of Xerxes, with the statement, " Primus quod extet, ut
equidem invenio (de Magia,)" and afterwards he quotes a Second Ostanes
in the time of Alexander the Great. We find in Zanetti et Bongiovanni,
that a Manuscript on Alchemy, by Ostanes, in Greek, is in the library of
St. Mark, at Venice, (Cod. Grcec. ccic.) but we do not know if it is the same
work from which this was taken. According to Lenglet du Fresnoy (Hist.
de la Phil. Herm. vol. I, p. 460) the works attributed to the Persian
Ostanes were written by Ostanes the Egyptian, who lived in the fifth century
after Jesus Christ, but as there were several of the name, the true age of
the author is still very doubtful (See also Cat. MSS. Bibl. Reg. Paris.
vol. I, p. 204, and Lambecius, Coram. Bibl. Ccesar. vol. VI, col. 383). We
subjoin a portion of the curious preface of the compiler of this treatise
(Abu Bakr Yahya Ibn Khan Asani) in which he speaks of the works from
which he took his compilation :

" Astanls (Ostanes) Hakim, the philosopher, says, this is a translation from a
book called Jami', which is a collection on the art of chemistry, relating the
qualities of minerals, botany, animals, the extraction of their essences, &c. Abu
Bakr says, I translated this book into Arabic from the KhorasanI language
which is spoken in Iran. I translated from the statement of Astanls Hakim.
I have added two more chapters at its conclusion, from statements of Harkal
al-Ruml, and of Khalid-al-Hindl, Aristotle of Egypt, Hormis, Runakhus, Bokraz,
Iskandar, Jabir, and Hamsl."

This treatise seems worthy of considerable attention, and, on account of the
many Greek authors mentioned in so ancient a manuscript (which affords
a fresh instance of Arabians having made the Greek scientific writers their
peculiar study) a translation of the entire work would no doubt prove
acceptable both to Greek and Arabic scholars. Notwithstanding the
disfiguration the names have undergone in their change into Arabic, it is
not difficult to recognize in those cited by Abu Bakr some of the most
celebrated of the ancient Alchemists, such as Archelaus, Aristotle the
Alchemist, Hermes, Hippocrates, Alexander, Geber, &c. &c. As regards
the statement of Abu Bakr that he translated the work of Ostanes from
the language of Khorasan into the Arabic, this fact ought to be carefully
investigated, for the inquiry is one of great interest, inasmuch as we have
on this point two conflicting statements, that of Ibn-Khaldun, who says that
the Arabians destroyed the ancient works of the Persians, and that of
Mas'udi, who affirms that the works of the Magi were still in existence
when he lived, that is about the middle of the tenth century after Jesus
Christ, and, although we are aware how, for the sake of gaining more credit,
Alchemists have not scrupled to palm off as writings of ancient authors
those of modern composition, the labour is one which will probably amply
repay the trouble of research. The quotation from a Hindoo Alchemist
is also very interesting as it confirms a statement made by the same
Mas'udi respecting the literary intercourse of the Arabians with the
Hindoos (see Notices et Extraits, vol I, p. 7, 38, &c). No mention of this
Abu Bakr could we find either in Lenglet du Fresnoy, or Mangetus. In
the Theatrum Chemicum (vol. V, p. 55) a " Brakus Philosophus" is men-
tioned, which might possibly be a corruption from Abu Bakr. We did
not find any mention of these translations from the Greek alchemists by
this Abu Bakr in the excellent work of M. Wenrich (De Auctor.
Graicorma Versionibus Syriacis, Arabicis, &c.)

29 Alchimia : Secreti Mirabili per 1' Alchimia 4<to. S^:c. xvi. on paper

This interesting unpublished Manuscript contains also a great number of pre-
scriptions and secrets relating to useful things, such as cosmetics, cement
for Majolica ware, &c.

30 Alchimia : Segreti della Distillazione royal folio. Sjsc. xvii. on paper

Beautifully written within painted borders of flowers, with coloured drawings of
Stills and Furnaces. At the beginning and end there are painted arms
of different persons. From a small poem at the beginning it seems that
this fine Manuscript was written for and addressed to the then Emperor of
Austria (Cesar e).

10 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

31 Alchimia : Collectio Auctorum qui scripserunt de Lapide Philoso-

phorum, Latine vel Italice 4>to. S^ec. xvi. (1568) on paper

This important and valuable collection, consisting of more than 400 pages,
contains : Arnaldi de Villanova Rosa novella — Liber Stephani Medici de
Lapide Philosophico — Epistola Marise Prophetissse SororisMoisi — Clavicula
Raymundi Lulii — Liber de Transmutatione Metallorum Comitis de Treves
et de Neges in Gallia et ex Gallico conversus in Latinum per Guilielmum
Rogozannum — L'Alfabeto apertoriale dell' Eccmo Filosofo Christoforo
Parigino — Tractatus Doctoris subtilis Michaelis Scoti de Lapide phi-
losophico majore — Tractatus Rogerii Bachonis (mutilus ?) — Liber per-
fecti Magisterii B. Thomse de Aquino — Lilium Intelligentise Magistri Artis
generalis de Florentia — Alberti Magni Secretorum Tractatus — Tractatus
Zenonis Philosophi de Lapide Philosophico — Qusestiones tam essentiales
quam accidentales Magistri Arnaldi de Villanova super Arte Transmuta-
tionis declaratse Papse Bonifacio VIII, ab eo petitse super Compositione
Lapidis Philosophici — Tractatus de Basilisco ad Opus facilimum Alchimise
— Epistola M. Alamani Bohemi ad Bonifacium VIII super Lapide philo-
sophico— Modus conficiendi Oleum Camphoree — Particulare " quod Toxites
pro singulari Secreto mihi communicavit affirmans se illud ex ipsius Theo-
phrasti Paracelsi autographo transcripsisse Aurum potabile absque Corro-
sivo Th." Several of these works are unpublished and even unknown.
The "Tractatus de Lapide philosophico majore" was unknown to Fabri-
cius, as well as to Lenglet du Fresnoy, neither of whom quote it in their
lists of the works of the Wizard, Michael Scott. The Liber Stephani de
lapide philosophico, the Alfabeto, the Lilium, the Tractatus Zenonis, and
the Epistola Alamani, have remained also quite unknown to Lenglet du
Fresnoy and all the other bibliographers we have been able to consult.

32 Alchimie : Des Lettres des Hebreux et de la Cabale des Juifs — De

l'Esprit du Monde contenant sommairement les Principes de toute
la Phisiologie (Sonnets) — Le Ltjcidaire de Christophle de Paris
(le second livre qui traite des choses naturelles)

in 1 vol. 4ito. Smc. xvii. on paper

A curious collection. The Sonnets (twenty in number) were written by some
French poet of the sixteenth century. The "Lucidaire" is a curious treatise
on natural philosophy, written in the thirteenth century, according
to Lenglet du Fresnoy (Hist. vol. III. p. 135) who did not know of this
French translation.

33 Alembert (J. Le Rond D') Geometrie Pratique pour l'lnstruction des

Artistes 4fo. Sjsc. xviii. on paper

This valuable Manuscript (without the name of the author) is divided into six
books, and was written before the middle of the last century. It is partly
autograph, and partly written by a copyist with autograph corrections ; and
these corrections, as well as the autograph portion, are undoubtedly in the
handwriting of the celebrated D'Alembert, who very probably wrote it
when low in fortune. (See the Isographie des Hommes Celebres, vol. I.)

34 Aleotti (Gio. Batta-) Delia Alteratione del Po di Ferrara et della Rivo-

lutione di esso nel Ramo di Figarolo

folio. SiEC. xvi — xvii. on paper
A most interesting autograph work of this distinguished Hydraulic Engineer
and Architect, with two of his autograph letters addressed " Alii Molto
111" miei SSri Ossmi g\[ Sigri et Sindiei della Comunita d'Argenta," with
his seal, dated 1601 and 1634; the latter date is important, since it proves
that he did not die in 1630, as was engraved on his tombstone prior to his
decease and never altered by his heirs. In the same volume is bound
up an autograph Treatise by Aleotti, entitled " Dell Architettura Libro V."
Aleotti was the author of a well known translation of the Pneumatics
of Hero, and made the river Po his peculiar study. This important
Manuscript was quite unknown to Mazzuchelli, who has written at length
of this celebrated man in his Scrittori d ) Italia.

THE LIBKL MANUSCRIPTS. 11

35 Alexandri Magni prudentissimi Liber, in the original oak hoards

folio. SiEC. XW. ON VELLUM
Written in double columns upon twelve leaves, of which the first has an
illuminated border, and a large capital representing the King on his Throne,
in gold and colours. The Manuscripts of this celebrated work, which
is generally placed amongst the Romances of Chivalry are of very
uncommon occurrence.

36 Alexandri Magni Macedonis qui totum mundum sibi subjugavit

Historia, French blue morocco folio. Sjec. xv. on yellum

Another fine Manuscript of this romance, with illuminated capitals. The text
of this Manuscript is very different from the previous one, as it is easy
to ascertain by comparing the beginning of each.

Previous MS. Present MS.

" Sapientissimi quippe egyptii scientes " Sapientissinii egyptiorum scientes

mensuram terre undasque maris et ce- mensuram terre atque undas maris

lestium ordines cognoscentes id est stel- dinumerantes et celestium siderum vim

lanim cursum motus et firmamenti cognoscentes id est stellarum cursum

tradiderunt. computantes tradiderunt."

But besides the difference in the reading, there are more important varia-
tions, as the present Manuscript contains many chapters, and letters, etc.,
which are not to be found in the preceding one ; and although the end is
similar in both, this one contains also the curious work " Alexandri Magni
Macedonis ad Aristotelem magistrum suum de itinere suo et de Situ Indie,"
which is not in the other.

37 Algazelis Logica folio. S^so. xiv. on vellum

Written in a small semi-gothic character, on fine Italian vellum, with capitals
illuminated in gold and colours. This volume was formerly in the
celebrated Library of Santa Giustina of Padua, and contains the curious
book-plate of that library, with the Autograph of Mabillon. From page
1 to 12, and 59 to 72, this Manuscript contains some additional matter,
which is not in the Medicean Manuscript, as described by Bandini. {Cat.
Bibl. Med. vol. IV. p. 118.) The last fourteen pages of this manuscript
are also different in the Algazelis Philosophia et Logica, printed at Venice,
1506, in 4to.

38 'Ali (Shaikh) " Slrat-al-Halabiah ;" an Account of the Wars of "the

Prophet," and of his Expeditions against the " Infidels," by Shaikh
'All of Aleppo 4ito. in case. SiEC. xv. on paper

Well written in theNaskh character, with the title on the first page illuminated.
It has never been printed.

39 Almanac (cum Theorica et Tabulis Planetarum, Lunse, Solis, &c.)

folio. SiEC. XV. ON PAPER

The numerous astronomical Tables are all with Arabic numerical figures. The
Almanac seems to have been calculated in the year 1391. In the page
containing the " Tabula ad sciendum introitus solis in principia 12 signorum
celi, etc." we find a note beginning thus : a Scias quod ista tabula facta est
ad meridiem pisuis (?) anno domini 1330." This Manuscript was
written in Italy, and probably contains the "Theorica planetarum" of
Andalone de Nigro, who was the master of Boccaccio, to which at a later
period was added the Almanac. In the year 1330 or 1331 Joannes de
Saxonia wrote an astronomical commentary on the work of Alchabitius,
but it does not seem that the present Manuscript has anything to do with
that commentary.

40 Almanac (fiir 1494) in German, with Astronomical and Astrological

Figures, the Signs of the Zodiac in colours
vellum cover 4<to. Smc. xv. on yellum and paper

A very curious Manuscript consisting of several hundred pages, with directions
(including those for Phlebotomy) for every day in the year. It contains
the description of the properties of the seven Planets in verse. The High-

12 THE LIBEI MANTTSCEIPTS.

German in which the work is written is remarkably pure, and probably by
a Saxon as, for instance, he writes Paden for Baden. The Almanac begins
with the year 1494. It contains a great number of figures (volvelles, Astro-
nomical Tables, etc. of " Pythagoras, Aristotle, Plato, Bartholomseus," &c.)
in red and black ink; the whole of them with Arabic numeral figures.
The Calendar contains a very full list of Saints, and each month is intro-
duced by a metrical Quatrain in the style of Poor Kobin. There are several
Treatises on the Signs of the Zodiac, the last with elegant coloured
drawings. This Manuscript has the autograph and arms of Hans Apfel-
berth on the first leaf.

41 Almanac. An Egyptian-Arabic Prophetical and Fortune-Telling

Almanac, written in the reign of Sultan Muzaffar Ahmad Khan, by
Sulaihan al-Falki-al-Hanaei-al-Samani (Astronomer)

folio. S-ffic. xvii. on paper

This Almanac is for a twelvemonth, including the last two months of the
year of the Hegira 1012, and the first 10 of the following year, answering
to a.d. 1603. The author predicts the events of each coming month, so as
to make what is called in the East TakwimAblahan, or a "Fool's Almanac."
Parties consulting it in a certain prescribed manner are assured that thereby
they can learn their future fortune. The following dates are given :

Beginning of the World - before the Hegira 174,706

Banishment of Adam from Paradise „ „ 5,364

Noah's Deluge ... ?j w 4J06

Departure of Alexander from Macedonia „ „ 1,915

A very curious work, which has never been printed.

42 Alsace, Memoire Militaire sur la Province d' Alsace

folio. S^c. xviii. (1791) on paper

An autograph manuscript, dated Strasbourg, 28 Xbre- 1791. It will be seen by a
note near the end, that it was an official and private document for the
then Minister at War of France.

43 Altjgara (Lorenzo) Descrizione Istorica del Contagio sviluppatosi in

una Tartanella Idriota esistente nel Canal di Poveglia nel G-iugno,
1793, e de' Mezzi practicati a rinserrarlo in quell' Isola. Illustrata da
una Eaccolta di Fatti seguiti in altri Tempi e di Nozioni relative
alia Peste ed ai Mezzi di Preservazione
calf extra, gilt edges 4to. Smc. xviii. (1793) on paper

With a coloured map. This valuable, historical as well as medical, Treatise,
is not mentioned in the excellent Saggio di Bibliografia Veneziana, by
M. Cicogna, and does not appear to have been printed. Amongst the
ancient unpublished documents inserted in this work, there is one of the
year 1347, written in the Venetian dialect.

44 Amp.ro sn Camaldulensis (Traversarii) Itinerarium Anno Domini

MCCCCXXXI. — MCCCCXXXIY. 4<tO. S^C. XV. ON PAPER

This Manuscript of one of the most interesting works of this celebrated General
of the Camalduli Monks was formerly in the Library of the " Monasterium
Angelorum " at Florence, and on the inside of the cover has the following
special memorandum respecting its loss : " Itinerarium Rmi- Cardinalis
Ambrosii perditum, postea inventum et sum Bibliothecai appositum A.D.
mdxlvii." This circumstance shows the high estimation in which this
Manuscript was held, and would induce us to suppose that it was the
original one given to his monastery by the author. General history (for
instance the narrative of the exile of Cosmo dei Medici) is mixed with
monastical matters in this visitation. A curious fact is that when, in
this Itinerarium, the learned Ambrosius has to complain of the moral
habits of the monks or nuns of his own order, he writes in Greek.

THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS. 13

45 America. Diario do succedido desde o dia (Dec. 1755) em que princi-

piarao a sahir as Tropas Portuguezas do Bio Grande de S. Pedro,
para o Torre de S. Goncallo ; da jun9ao dellas no detto Forte ; e da
Marcha que fizerao a se ajuntar com o Exercito de S. M. C. para
unidos hirem a Expulcao dos sette Povos sublevados que pelo Tratado
de Limites cede a Coroa de Espanha a de Portugal

8vo. Smc. x-viii. on paper

An autograph Diary, very interesting. With regard to America, see also Nos.
620 and 825-827 in the present Catalogue.

46 Amir Khund (Sayid) The " Tawarikh-al-'Alam," in Persian, containing

Historical Accounts of Thamra (Samrah), JSTishapur, Samarkand,
Khorasan, Bokhara, Constantinople and other places, with Biographi-
cal Notices of several Eastern Potentates and Mohammedan Saints

4to. S^:c. xvii. on paper

This manuscript is written in the Nasta'lik character. It is dated Anno Hegirae
1057 (a.d. 1647). This work is mostly taken from the great work of
Sayid Amir Khund (commonly called Mirkhand, or Mirkhond,) with some
additions. To fully appreciate the importance of that renowned historian,
of whose celebrated history only a few extracts have appeared in European
languages, it will be useful to peruse the Catalogue of the " Historical
Manuscripts of the R. Asiatic Society of Great Britain," by Mr. Morley
(p. 30-38).

47 Ammirato (Scipione) Orazione contra il Turco

4<to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

This work was published at Florence in 1598.

48 Ammirato (Scipione) il Dedalione over del Poeta Dialogo

4:tO. SJSC. X\i. ON PAPER

An autograph manuscript of this celebrated author, with a Dedication to
Geronimo Seripando Arcivescovo di Salerno.

49 Angeli (Johannis Christophori) Dancksagungs-Predigt ex Psalmo 122,

Thanksgiving-Sermon at Kelsterbach, 30 May, 1627, for the Foun-
dation of Marpurg University in 1527 ito. 1627, on paper

An autograph Sermon at the centenary Jubilee, by the Incumbent.

50 Annales Sainctes depuis la Creation du Monde jusques a la Passion de

Jesus Christ
old French red morocco, with Anns on sides

2 vol. folio, xvii Century, on paper

Written in a beautifully clear hand on upwards of 1300 pages. From the
celebrated Library of Le Tellier de Courtanvaux. At the beginning of this
manuscript there are numerous marginal notes, some of which seem to be
in the handwriting of Louis de Bourbon, the great warrior, called Le
Grand Conde, (see the Isographie, vol. I.) who in the decline of his life
was disposed to be religious.

51 Anonxmi doctissimi Dictata in Pomponium Melam

4fo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

In all probability the Lectures of Abraham Gronovius.

52 Anselmi (B. Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis) Tractatus de Casu Dyaboli et

Omelise IV. super Missus est Gabriel — Isidori (S.) Synonima

folio. 8mc. xiv. on vellum

These rare Homilies are not quoted by Fabricius in the list of the works of
S. Anselm, and no Manuscript of them is to be found in the great "Cata-
logus Bibliothecse Regiae Parisiensis." (See also Nos. 105, 465, &c. in the
present Catalogue).

14 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

53 Antidotarium Mo. SiEC. xv. on paper

At the end of this early Medical Manuscript are twenty-three leaves of various
Recipes both in Italian (or rather in the Venetian dialect) and Latin,
amongst which, one is entitled Ungucnto de li Monichi de lordeno de Inghil-
terra. ^ This .Antidotarium, (wherein are such prescriptions as Lohoc, a
pollyrium with Litharge, a composition to make sealing-wax, &c.) is
interesting for the history of Physic.

54 Antonii Aretini Novae Regulse de Constructionibus

S^IC. XV. (1426), ON VELLUM

A Grammatical Treatise, which seems quite unknown, written on 84 leaves of
pure Italian vellum, with the capitals in colours, and the name of the scribe,
"Iste liber est mei ieronimi de orlandis," and the date a.d. mccccxxvi.
The name of this Grammarian appears to have escaped all the Biographers
and Bibliographers perused by us. Several leaves of this Manuscript
are palimpsest, but the ancient handwriting is hardly visible, although
in some instances (see the chapter de Consequentiis) it seems to have
contained some old Italian words, which is seldom the case in palimpsests.

55 Antonini, (S. Archiepiscopi Elorentini,) Summa brevis informatio ac in-

terogatio Confessionis — Tractatus super VII Peccata mortalia —
Regul^e ex Dictis B. Thomse — Bonaventur^ Cardmalis Trac-
tatus super Magistrum Sententiarum de Peccatis — Egregius Trac-
tatus de Peccatis mortalibus (metrice) — De Restitutions — De
Ludo Alese, &c. — Manus duodecim peccantes — Rustitianus Prater
Eratri Antouio de Elorentia, missiva et responsiva simul — De Excom-
municatione (Excommunicationes reservata3,etc.) — De Defectibus
Missse, &c. &c. 8vo. Sjec. xv. on paper

This very complete Manual for a Father Confessor, formerly belonged to
the Congregation of S. Justina at Padua. The " Tractatus de Peccatis
mortalibus " is a Latin poem of about 100 lines. In the Manus duodecim
we find Manus lusoria, where is mentioned as a common sin Supponere
falsos taxillos, and other tricks of the Greeks of those days. An uncommon
occurrence in these instructions for Confession is the mention, that in
certain sins that of the husband is more abominable than that of the wife.

56 Antonino (S.) de l'Ordine de Erati Predicatori, Arziveschovo de Eio-

renza, Somma dei Vizii, dei Peccati e dei Sacramenti — Specchio
della Mondicia del Core — Ambrosii Episcopi (S.) Liber Viciorum et
Virtutum — Cesarei Episcopi (B.) Liber Sermouum B. ad Monacos
solitarios qui merito dicitur Speculum Monacorum — Bernardus (S.)
de Praecepto et Dispensatione
vellum small folio. S^c. xv. on vellum

A fine Italian Manuscript written in double columns. The " Somma dei Vizii"
is the celebrated "Confessionale" of St. Antoninus, quoted by the Crusca,
and begins with Omnis mortalium cura. In comparing the text with one
of the most ancient 4to. editions of this work, without date, we find a great
many various readings. For instance, at the beginning

Manusceipt. Edition.

" Ma pure ad uno fine tutti intendono " Ma pure ad uno fine tuti inten-

e sforzano de venire, cioe a beatitudine. deno e forzano de venire zioe de bea-

In generale ciascuno appetisce d'essere titudine in generale ciascuno desidera

beato." desser beato."

As to the Specchio, whether this work has any connection with those
numerous manuscript works cited under the title of Trattato, by the
Crusca we have been unable to discover, but undoubtedly the Italian of
this work is old and pure. The Latin works, but chiefly those of Csesarius,
contained in this Manuscript would afford curious various readings to a
new editor. At the end there is this colophon " Iste liber est monasterii
Sti. Georgii di Ferraria, ordinis Montis Oliveti."

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 15

57 Antontno (S.) Trattato intitolato " Curam illius habe " (cioe il Con-

fessionale in volgare) in the original binding 4to. Sjec. xv. on vellum

Avery elegant Manuscript of a work which ranks among the " Testi di Lingua."
During the XVth Century it was often printed, probably because the
author at the beginning strongly recommended its perusal, which, says he,
" Sara piu salutifero che leg g ere Dante o le cento novelle et corbaccio di messere
Giovanni (Boccaccio) o sonecti o cantare de paladini et libri di Ceccho
d^Ascholi heretico." But the sainted Archbishop seems little confident of
being read by the clergymen and curates of the country, of whom he says,
che si dilettano poco di leggere, adding " Chi non sa queste cose sopraddette
piu tosto vadi a zappare che lui si meita a confessare et meglio li sarebbe di
guardare le pecore che avere cura delV anime." The text of this Manuscript,
written in Tuscany, is exceedingly pure, and affords valuable various
readings. In comparing it with the 4to. edition of this work, printed at
Florence by Lorenzo Morgiani, in 1493, we found that this Manuscript
contains 24 pages in Italian relating to Excommunication, which are not in
that edition, but which appeared in Latin only at Venice as early as 1474.

58 Apologues, ou Parables — Tractatus moralis cum Sententiis Patrum —

De Cohabitacione Mulierum cum Sacerdotibus — Tractatus de
Missa — Boethius de Scholarium Disciplina cum Commentario
vetusto — Exorcismi Eormula — Olossarium Latinum — Tractatus
de Grrammatica ex Prisciano " ad Julianum Imperatorem Consulem
etPatricium" excerptus — Gr alert di deVinosalvo (Angli) seupotius
Johannis de Garlandia (Angli) Liber de iEquivoeis et Opus Synony-
morum, cum Commentario — Opus de Barbarismo — Carmen de
Barbarismo — Ars Grrauimaticse 4ito. SiEC. xiii. on yellum

A very extraordinary collection of ancient manuscripts in different handwritings,
of the early part of the XHIth Century. The Apologues in French are
of the highest interest for the Language of the period. The work " de
Scholarium Disciplina" has been falsely attributed to Boethius, of whom it
is totally unworthy ; and although it may probably have been the produc-
tion of Thomas de Cantimprato, who was born in 1201, yet the age of this
early Manuscript distinctly disproves that Dionysius a Ryckel, the Car-
thusian, who died in 1471, could, as is stated by Labbe and Cave,
have been the author. The Glossarium is of no small importance for philo-
logists. The " Tractatus de Grammatica," is an abridgement of Priscian.
On the blank page at the end of this treatise is a memorandum, in a
writing certainly more than a century later than the Manuscript dated

o XX

mccc1"1!!!!6 (1394), and another dated mccccxi. On the same page is the
following verses :

En Ian de lincarnacion

Qui couroit mil cccc et sept

Auint la grand destrucion

Des Cretines et du grand fret.

At the end of John Garland's " Liber de iEquivocis" is written " Explicit
Liber Equivocorum Ms G. de barqto," and the commentator at the com-
mencement of the "Opus Synonymorum," informs us that it was by Galfridus
de Vinosalvo, " qui construxit novam poetriam et istum libellum et libellum
de asquivocis." This may be correct, but both these last works have been
long known under the name of Garland as the author. The text of
this manuscript affords many valuable various readings, and is far superior
to that given by Leyser (Hist. Poet, p. 312-339). The following specimens
taken from near the commencement of both poems will suffice :

LlBEB DE iEQUIYOCIS. MS. LeTSEE.

" Hec acus est stibium calamistrum subua " Hasc acus est stilus, calamistrum, subula,

rome rome

Portula ruricole stimulus pugioque draconis Hoc aceris faciet, sed acus dabit htec ge-

Hoc acus est palea sutoribus ha3c acus apta nitivo

Hoc aceris faciet sed acus dabit hsec ge- Hoc acus est palea, sicut ha3c acus, hie

nitivo." acus ornat."

16 THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS.

Opus Stnonymoetjm. MS. Leyser.

" Nil veteram curis euro superaddere dictis " Ad veterum curas cura superaddere nostras
Sed dare lac tenuis proponens pauca pusillis." Sed dare lac pueris, proponens pauca, pusillis."

As is well known Leyser published only the first nine lines of the
Poem de yEquivocis ; but the whole of this Poem, written about the year
1040 by a celebrated English Poet, will be found in this manuscript.
The work de Barbarismo is nothing more than the third book of the " Ars
Grammatica Donati ; " but the Poem de Barbarismo seems unknown, as
well as the Ars Grammatical and the Commentaries on the Works of J.
de Garlandia, which are replete with curious matter; for instance, a
comparison between the cock and the preacher, which is truly singular.
The Abreviatio Prisciani is a considerable work, written early and founded
upon ancient manuscripts, and would afford considerable help to a new
editor. (Is this abreviatio the work of Petrus Elias quoted by Fabricius ?)
The Donatus also, with an old Commentary, would supply a great
number of various readings. Almost at every page this manuscript con-
tains curious facts and notes — one very interesting about Cato's Moral
Works, so celebrated during the middle ages. But unquestionably the
most interesting portion of this volume are the singular French Contes,
written against both the wealthy and the monks, from the beginning of
which we subjoin a specimen :

" Un enchanteor passa par reis e princeps la ou seient e touz les aweugla se un
tel venist a la meson aucun de nos fous serions si nos le receusum. E cestui en-
ehanteor ci est apele Robert le riche. Ce sont les riches qui asveugle les juges e
les reis, etc."

We did not find any mention of these Apologues either in the Fables inedites,
published at Paris by M. Robert in 1825, or in the invaluable Catalogue des
Manuscrits Francois de la Bibliotlieque du Moi, published more recently by
M. P. Paris. See also Nos. 283, 683, 742 and 993 in the present Catalogue.

59 Aquino (B. Thomse de) Compendium Theologise — Ejusdem Exposicio Ora-

tionis Dominicge — Opusculum quatuor novissimorum — Tractatus
qui Cordiale dicitur — Ars bene moriendi cum Orationibus devotis

8VO. S^C. XV. ON YELLUM

Written in Italy upon fine vellum, with illuminated initials. The "Opusculum"
is in prose and in verse.

60 Arabic : Dictionnaire Francois-Arabe 4to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

This valuable Dictionary, consisting of several hundred pages, and which
formerly belonged to the Order of " Capucins de Bagdad," has also the
pronunciation of the Arabic words written under each, in Roman letters.
It is unfortunately imperfect at the commencement. In some parts it
appears to be in the handwriting of the celebrated Peiresc, who, as is well
known, applied himself to the study of the Oriental languages, and was
in correspondence with the most learned Maronites.

61 Arabic Syntax : A Translation from an Arabic work into English

folio. Smc. xix. ON PAPER

62 Arati " Vettjstissimtjm hoc Fragmenttjm in Sicilia compertum cum

Comentario Vide " — Aratus a M. Tullio Cicerone (Seu potius a
G-ermanico) traductus
blue morocco, gilt edges 8vo. Smc. xv. on vellum

Beautifully written on Italian vellum, with the two initial letters elegantly
painted in gold and colours, having the first page adorned with a rich
border and the arms of an ancient owner. This is a very interesting
manuscript, the title of which reads as above. It not only contains great
variations from and additions to the printed edition, but (a singular fact)
attributes to Cicero a translation of Aratus with a commentary, which in
all the editions is published under the name of Germanicus. This frag-
ment of Aratus, as is stated in the title-page, was found in Sicily in the
fifteenth century, and was first printed in 4to. at Venice, in 1488, by
Antonius de Strata Cremonensis, with other astronomical and medical poems

THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS. 17

by Avienus, Serenus, &c. In this edition, as subsequently, the trans-
lation and the commentary were attributed to Gcrmanicus. This Manu-
script, however, must have been a transcript from the original manuscript
found in Sicily, as at the end we read (Sic) : " Finis Arati : Sed plura
deficiunt propter vetustatem et quinternionum fractionem collegi nequa-
quam potuerunt et cum maxima difficultate." As we find on the first
leaf the name, written in the fifteenth century, of "Petri de Joannis et
Amicorum," which is that of a well known Sicilian family, we may believe
that this Manuscript was written in Sicily at the time of the discovery of
the ancient fragment now lost, and that it is a most genuine transcript of
the vetvstissimumjragmentum mentioned in our Manuscript. By comparing
the Editio Princeps (in which this work is also stated to have been Nnper
inSicilia repertum) with this Manuscript, Ave learn several interesting facts.
Firstly, we see how ancient editors were induced to supply (often without
any foundation, and even without giving any notice of it to the reader) the
deficiencies and lacunce which they found in a manuscript in which (as in
the present volume) the scribes had indicated them by leaving a blank space.
Secondly, by perusing the dedication of Victor Pisani to Paul Pisani, a
Venetian senator, we see that at that time printers and publishers were
pressing learned men. to supply them with ancient authors, or at least
fragments, such being apparently the most popular works for selling, and
looked upon as Godsends, equal to what a fashionable novel by some
favourite writer would be in the present day This first edition contains the
Germanici Arathea Phamomena and Prognostzca, following each other, as
in this Manuscript, without the distinction which was introduced after-
wards. But the Manuscript contains besides twenty-stx pages, which
seem quite unknown, de Sole, de Mundo, etc. (following immediately the
last sentence of " Prognostica" as printed, " In cauda tres, sunt omnesxx.'")
which are not in the editions, and which exhibit much astronomical and
cosmographical information. At the beginning there is a biography of
Aratus, with considerable variations from the editions.

It is not only hi the first edition that the lacunae, or blank spaces of the
manuscript were erroneously supplied, or even passed over without notice,
as if they had never existed. In the absence of a good manuscript, the
blunders of the first edition were unavoidably reproduced in this century
by Buhle in his classical edition of Aratus, as will be seen from a single
specimen of comparison between the manuscript with its lacuncc, and the
Buhle edition (vol. II, p. 36 et 37).

Manuscript. Edition.

" Homerum dixisse ' Homerum dixisse Jovem in aliqua

Jovem in aliqua parte coelum parte coelum. Et ipse Aratus quod

et ipe . . . dicit Herodotus Jovem dictum aera et

Aratus qu dixit Herodotus Jovem Crates quidem ejusdem est opinionis,

dictum aera Crates quidem testemque esse Phil on em comicum dicit

ejusdem est opinionis teste, ee Hoc autem constat et ipsum dicere.

comicu Philone qui dicit . . . Nam quia nihil aliud est vox."

Hoc aut co stat et ipm dicere

nam quia nihil aliude

vox.

No wonder if, having such a text to deal with, Buhle (vol. II, p. 479)
was so severe upon this ancient commentator. We believe that, after this,
Ave may safely state that :

For a new editor of Aratus, as well as for the student of the
history of science this Manuscript is invaluable.

It is almost unnecessary to add here that the present manuscript has
nothing in common with the celebrated Harleian Manuscript, now in the
British Museum, containing the translation of Aratus, by Cicero, with a
commentary entirely different from the present one, and so accurately
described by Mr. Ottley in the sixteenth volume of the Arcliwologia.
(Respecting a fragment of Aratus, translated by Gcrmanicus, see also
Yriarte, Codices Manuscripii Greci Bill. Matritensw, p. 203).

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18 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

63 Abcudii (Antonii) do Syntaxi verborum G-rsecorum Liber, Graece et
Latine, vellum 4<to. SiEC. xvii. on paper

Antonio Arcudio was much employed by Clement VIII, and under the
Papal patronage he published a Greek Breviary, in order to unite if possible,
the Greek and Roman churches. This work on Syntax is quite unknown
to bibliographers, even to the learned and minute Mazzuchelli.

G4 Archjtettura. Drawings of Columns, &c. with Explanations in Italian

folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

This is the autograph work of some first-rate Italian architect of the last
century.

65 Architecture, &c. Plans and Sections of Roofs — Notes respecting
Major Knaspole's House at Eastwell — Account of Dials (including
Sir C. Wren's) — The Manner to lay a House or Building in Per-
spective— On Organs, with Account of tbe Stops in that of the
Temple — Account of Freemasonry, by Henery Heade, 1675 —
On Arches, with a Diagram of that " by the Traytor's Grate in the
Tower" — Rule for Arches, with an Autograph Letter to Captain
Wind, unsigned, dated 1689 — Notes on Grunnery — Treatise on
Mathematics, with Diagrams, &c.
calf gilt edges folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper

At folio 190 is a drawing of a truss for a stack of chimneys, signed James
Whithead. This interesting Manuscript contains a great variety of tracts
on mathematical and mechanical subjects, with drawings of several early
engines and inventions. At leaf 129 there is the description of a weather
cloch, by Dr. Chr. Wren, which was a writing instrument marking by itself
in pencil upon a sheet of paper, the changes of the wind and weather.
(See Elmes, Sir Chr. Wren and his times, p. 192.) Some of the tracts
included in this collection are evidently in the handwritings of the different
authors.

QQ Aretini (Leonardi Bruni) Hisagogicum breve in Pines Bonorum et
Malorum ad Galestum Mo. S^ec. xv. on paper

This work was published at Louvain, in 1475, under the title of Aristoteles
de Moribus ad Eudemium Latine Leonardo Aretino interprete.

67 Aretini (Leonardi Bruni) Comedia Polisena — Wimpeeling (Jacobi)

Historia, dated 1470 — Carmen magistri Ludovici de Triumpho in
Schlettstatt — Hymni — Epistola cujusdam utrograde legenda

4<tO. $MC. XV. ON PAPER

The Polisena is one of the first modern plays written in imitation of the
ancients ; the other tracts are very curious.

68 Aretini (Leonardi Bruni) Commcntariorum primi Punici Belli Liber

4itO. SiEC. XV. ON PAPER

69 Aretino (Lionardo Bruni) Libro de primo Bello Punico composto in

Latino, volgarizato poi da lui per uno suo Amico
in the original binding 4to. SiEC. xv. ON vellum

Written on 106 leaves of pure vellum, by an Italian scribe, with the capitals
illuminated in gold and colours. This unpublished Italian translation has
always been considered as anonymous, even by Bandini (Bibliotheca
Leopold. Laurent, vol.11, p. 222 et 249), and by Mazzuchelli. At the
end of the Prologo, this Manuscript, however, shows that the author
himself translated his own work for a friend, who most probably was
unable to read the Latin original. It is clear from the quotations given
by Bandini, that, although it exhibits some various readings, this is the
identical translation quoted by him as anonymous.

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THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS. 19

70 Aretino (Pietro) Dialogo, Madalena e Giulia Interlocutrici — Veniero

(Sig. Lorenzo) La P Errante divisa in quattro Canti

vellum 4ito. Bjec. xvii. on paper

This Dialogo is the famous or rather infamous P Errante, in Prose, which

must not be confounded with the poem of Veniero, bearing the same name,
and therefore, on account of its obscenity, often erroneously attributed to
the licentious Aretino himself.

71 Aretini (Thomasii) Cosmographion

8vo. (agenda size.) S^:c. xv. on paper

This early Cosmographer in the Italian language appears to be totally unknown
to Bibliographers, and as even Mazzuchelli mentions no Thomas cVArezzo,
in all probability, this work is unpublished. The title-page is written
within a tricoloured circle or globe, and commences with the capital,
elegantly painted in gold and colours, thus :

<U

VANTO
NQVE PERV
kARn IMPE
DIMENTI "

" per continue solicitudini per assidue, &c."

This valuable manuscript, adorned with various diagrams, astronomical and
geographical, formerly belonged to the celebrated Apostolo Zeno, who was
a great collector of rare books and manuscripts, and contahis his book-
plate. A Tommaso d'Arezzo is mentioned as a Poet by Tiraboschi,
on the authority of a few unpublished poems bearing his name, in
a manuscript collection of Rime, made in 1460, by Felice Feliciano, and pre-
served at Carpi. An epitaph on the same, or a namesake, exists among
the inedited poems of Carolo Aretino, who himself died in 1453. This
interesting manuscript was certainly written before the discovery of
America, and the author, who at the end addresses it to his son, says that
he has written this work in Italian at the request of somebody who is
not mentioned.

71* Argensola (B. L. de) Eelacion del Torneo de Zaragoza en 1630

vellum 4ito. Smc. xvii. on paper

This work in prose and in verse, gives very curious details about the Aragonese
customs and manners during the seventeenth century. B. L. de Argensola,
a celebrated Spanish Historian, was the author of the Annates de Aragon,
and the Conquista de la Islas Molucas. No doubt this work remained
unpublished, as it was unknown to N. Antonio, who, in his Bibliotheca
Hisp. Nova (vol. I, p. 196), speaks at length of this author.

72 Aristeneto, Epistole nelle quali si espongono suavissimi Colloqui d'

Amanti : si descrivono bellissime Donne, e si narrano alcune Novelle
amorose. Opera tradotta del Greco et arrichita d'opportnne Anno-
tazioni da Cluento Nettunio Pastore Arcade (Girolarno Baruffaldi
di Eerrara) folio. S^ic. xviii. (1722) on paper

An autograph manuscript of the Arciprete G. Baruffaldi, completely prepared
for publication, but never printed, owing most probably to the free
character of the work. Argelati and Gamba both mention the translation
as unpublished. See also No. 131 in the present Catalogue.

73 Aristoteles. In octo Libros Physicoum Aristoteles Dispntationes

4to. 8mc. xvii. on paper

A curious work relating a great number of experiments, and written by an Italian
peripatetic, objecting to the theories and discoveries of Galileo.

c2

20 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

74* Aristotelis et Porphyrii Opuscula Varia, Latine. Item Boecii Liber
Divisionum et Topicorum 4<to. SvEc. xiii. on vellum

Containing " Porphyrii Isagoge ; Aristotelis Praedicamenta, Perihermeneias,
Topica, Liber Elenchorum, Liber Priorum et Liber Posteriorum." At the
end there are some Latin verses relating to physic, and here and there
on the margin are curious drawings (a warrior with spurs) and diagrams.
At the last page of the Liber Elenchorum there is this marginal note,
Magistri Karoli Scriptoris, with the date of 1240. Some leaves of this
manuscript seem to be a sort of palimpsest.

75 Aristotelis Libri Analyticorum Posteriorum — Porphyrii Tsagoge ad

Categorias Aristotelis — Aristotelis Praedicamenta, &c. — Commen-
tarii in Prsedicamenta
in the original oak boards folio. Sjsc. xiv. on yellum and paper

Very distinctly written on eighty-six leaves, of which the first fifty are on vel-
lum (a portion of them having been erased, and forming a sort of
palimpsest,) with illuminated capitals, in which are introduced portraits of
Aristotle and Porphyry, and also one of the Madonna and Child. In the
Libri Analyticorum a continual use is made of the letters of the alphabet to
express various objects.

76 Aristotelis Topica et alia, Latine, cum commento

4ito. S^lC. XV. ON vellum

A portion of this manuscript is written over a much older one obliterated by
the use of pumice-stone. There are some geometrical diagrams in the
volume.

77 Aristotelis Ethica Leonardo Aretino interprete

in the original Venetian binding, with brass bosses

Finely written on Italian vellum, with the initial capitals richly illuminated in
gold and colours.

78 Aristotelis Liber de Anima ex Grsea in Latinam Linguam translatus

ab E. B. Andrea Bilio Mediolanensi 4<to. SiEC. xv. on yellum

Beautifully written on Italian vellum, with the capital letters illuminated in
gold and colours ; the first page adorned with an elegant border, in which
birds, squirrels, and insects are introduced, and painted to the life. From
the Latin verses at the beginning, and the ancient inscription at the end,
this appears to be the unique unpublished manuscript of this work, for-
merly in the library of S. Mark, at Milan, and described by Argelati
(Script. Med. vol II. p. 161).

79 Arithmetic and Astronomy : " Kitab fi 'Ilm-al-Hissab wa al-Daarah,"

A Book on the Science of Arithmetic and the Sphere, in Arabic

4to. SvEC. xviii. on paper

No author's name attached. Written a.d. 1761, by a Christian, with arith-
metical and astronomical tables at the end.

80 Arithmetic : Rechenbuch (in German) anonymous

8VO. SiEC. xvi. ON YELLUM

81 Arithmetic in Armenian 8vo. Sjec. xviii.

A full work on the subject, with tables, &c

82 Arithmetica, Algebra e Geometria, 2 vol. 4do. Sjec. xviii. on paper

This is a complete work, written by some Italian mathematician about the
middle of the last century. It contains a treatise, Dei Luorjhi Geometrici.
Relating to Arithmetic, and its history, see also Nos. 229, 248, 279, 298,
299, 364, 483, 507, 523, 568, 607, 664, 665, 702, 707, 722, 724, 793, 845,
846, 855, 976, 1016, 1059, etc. in the present Catalogue.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 21

83 Arnaldi de Nova Villa, Medicorum peritissimi, Aureolae

4do. S.EC. xiv. ON VELLUM

This manuscript was written in the early part of the XI Vth Century, and probably
during the author's lifetime. Arnaldus de Villanova was born, near Mont-
pellier, in France, about the middle of the Xlllth century, and perished by
shipwreck in 1314. He was one of the most celebrated chymists of his
time, and is supposed to have been not only the discoverer of sulphuric,
muriatic and nitric acids, but even the first to have produced alcohol, using
it for extracting odours and medical properties from plants. According
to the Bwgra/phie Universelle, he was also the first real distiller, and to him
we are indebted for pointing out the manner of producing essences,
ratafias, and the various spirits used in medicine or cosmetics ; but an
eminent authority, D. Hoefer, in the excellent Nouvelle Biographie Uni
versette, (vol. Ill, p. 279-82) published under his direction at Paris by
Messrs. Didot, is not inclined to ascribe all these discoveries to Arnaldus.
It is well known that he was persecuted as a heretic by the University of
Paris, for his statement that a good physician is more useful to mankind
than a priest. From the appearance of this manuscript, finely decorated
in various colours throughout, it seems to have been executed in Spain,
or by a Spanish scribe in the southern part of France.

>4 Arracola Onate (Bernarde de, "Secretaire de Sa Majeste,") Lettre de
pouvoir a Asencio de Leybar, &c.
calf, gilt edges folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

An official translation into French of the Proceedings respecting the Legitimacy
of B. de Arracola Oiiate and his Brother, made by the Notary J. B. Van
Brempt, with the Brussels Civic Seal and Signature of their Greffier.
These Proceedings, which substantiate the Pedigree, are in a very beau-
tiful caligraphy.

85 Arrighoni (Gh'anbattista " Prete Bergamascho e Clericho Fiorentino,'')
Breve et utile Refugio de' Peccatori 4fo. Sjec. xvi-xvii. on paper

An autograph manuscript prepared for publication, but never printed. The work
is dedicated to his namesake Cardinal Pompeio Arrighoni. Mazzuchelii
mentions several learned men bearing the name of Arrighoni; and amongst
them the Conte Gio Batista, and the Caneelliere Gio Batista, both Poets, and
living at the same time ; but since the former is described as Mantovano, and
the latter as Udinese, whose unpublished Sonnets were preserved in the
Ongaro manuscripts, this Bergamascho was unknown to him. Cardinal
Pompeo was created in 1596, and died in 1G16.

80 Artillerie. Discours sur l'Artillerie et sur le Jet des Bombes fait en
l'Annee 1694j par le Sf S. E-. 8vo. S,ec. xvii. on paper

The volume contains also u Description Ilistorique de la Ville de Dunkerke,"
an important work, consisting of 340 pages, which, not being mentioned
by Belong, is probably not only unpublished but even unknown.

87 Artillerie. Abrege des Regies du Mouvement des Corps applicable a

la Theorie du Jet des Bombes et autres Parties cle l'Artillerie
red morocco Svo. SiEC. xviii. on paper

Elegantly written, with drawings of bombs.

88 Astrologia: "In Nomine Domini, etc. Incipit quedam sum a judi-

cialis astronomic, etc. intitulatur de interrogationibua quse quotidie
fiunt," et alia Opuscula &to. SiEC. xv. on paper

This manuscript formerly belonged to Cardinal Grimani, and has his autograph on
the first leaf: Liber D. Grimani Carlis S. Marci. He was the son of the Doge
Antonio Grimani, and was remarkable for having offered to undergo the
imprisonment indicted on his father for suffering Lepanto to be taken by the
Turks, whilst Captain-General of the Fleet, and even supporting his irons
when conducted into exile in chains. This filial piety excited the com

22 THE LIBEI MANUSCBIPTS.

passion of the people, and his father was permitted to quit his place of
banishment, and to sojourn at Rome, where, through the influence of his
son with the Pope, he was enabled to render such eminent services to Venice
that he was recalled, reinstated as Procurator of St. Mark, and on the
death of Leonardo Loredani unanimously elected Doge. Cardinal Dome-
nico Grimani, who died in 1523, was a great patron of learned men, and a
great collector. Erasmus, in his letters, speaks highly of his magnificent
library. He was so fond of a fine manuscript that we are told by
Morelli that he gave 500 zeccJwii cVoro (a tremendous sum for that time)
for an exquisitely illuminated missal (see tl Notizie d'opere di disegno nella
prima meta del Secolo XVI." p. 77, 226, etc.) Cardinal Grimani was also
the possessor of one of the Cartoons of Raffaelle (the Stoning of St. Stephen).
The present manuscript, full of information relating to astronomical
instruments and observations, is one of the few remains of that celebrated
collection.

89 Astrologia (Trattato di) 4do. S^c. xvi. on paper

A large work consisting of more than 500 pages, and giving the most minute
details relating to each future event in every occurrence of life. Astro-
logical Treatises, written in Italian, are of very rare occurrence ; the
present one is unpublished.

90 Astrologia (Trattato di) 4do. S^c. xvii. on paper

Some of the tables are calculated up to 1720, but the work is earlier, as is
often the case in Almanacs. From the Halliwell Collection.

91 Astrologico-Medica : Excerpta ex Ali-Ebn-Eagel et Guidone Bonato

de Exitu Morborum — He Imaginieus super Signa Zodiaci circa
jEgrifcudiiies Corporis — Guillelmi Angiici civis Marsiliensis de
TJrina visa seu non visa — De Dominto Planetarum naturali et acci-
dental! super Membra Corporis humani — Cazaguerra Medici de
Eaventia Afforismi— De modo et ordine dandi medicinarn educentem
per secessura — De modo et ordine faciendi flobotomiam — Regul^i
extravagantes et utiles in Scientia Medicinse extracts de Libris
Sapientium — De Eortitudintbus Planetarum — De Signts, Planetis
et Ventis — De Diyisione Dierum et Dominatione Humorum —
Tabula cum suis Canonibus pro Inventione ascendentis — Hippo-
cratis Liber de Astrologia — Almansoris Astrologi Capitula Stel-
larum — Gentilis Perusini Tractatus de Diebus creticis — De
Aspectibtjs Lunse cum Planetis — De Luhinari minore — De
Diebes creticis in one vol. 4ito. Smc. xv. on paper

A very extraordinary collection of Astronomical, Astrological, and Medico-
Astrological Treatises, with diagrams, from the Library of the celebrated
Apostolo Zeno, with his book-plate. The Treatise of William the
Englishman, who styles himself a Citizen of Marseilles, and by profes-
sion a Physician, contains important marginal corrections and additions.
The Aphorisms of Cazaguerra were totally unknown to Tiraboschi and
the other authors on the literary history of Italy whom we have perused.
Manuscripts of " Hippocrates de Astrologia" are of uncommon occurrence.
Gentilis (Physician to Pope John XXII) was born at Foligno, and died at
Perugia in 1348, and on that account he is sometimes called De Perusia.
This Treatise of his on Critical Days was entirely unknown to Fabricius
and Tiraboschi. The doctrine of the planetary influence upon the various
illnesses long prevailed amongst physicians, who at that time were obliged
to study astrology, and consequently astronomy also (see on this subject
Sprengel Hist, de la Medecine, vol. II. p. 401, 510, etc.) This collection,
therefore, containing several unknown works, with additional astronomical
tables (some coloured), full of Arabic numerical figures, deserves attention.
From the long list of the authors prefixed in the autograph of Apostolo
Zeno, it would appear that this celebrated man had made a peculiar study
of this manuscript, which is finely written in an Italian hand.

THE LI13RI MANUSCRIPTS. 23

92 Astbonomia: Kalendaeium cum tabulis astronomicis (ab anno 1475

ad annum 1513) — Tabula regionum (cum horis, etc.) — Tabula
eclipsium Solis et Lunse (ab anno 1475 ad annum 1530) — Insteu-
mentum orarum inequalium — Instbumentum veri motus Luna? —
De Aubeo numero, et de Ciclo Solari — Tabulae festorum mobilium
— De Conjunctionibus et Oppositiouibus Luminarium — De Eclip-
sibus — De Magnitudine dierum (cum tabulis) — De Hobologio
horizontali — Dies Paschalis (Ductu Johannis de Monteregio) —
Quadbantis horologii horizontalis nee non Quadratum horarium
generale — Poema latinum de aspectibus Planetarum, Incipit:
" Fortunata dies operum dispouere causas " — Cognitiones natu-
rarum secundum nativitates secundum Guidonem Bonactum — ■
Ascendentia civitatum — Peonostica Ilesdra? — Pbonostica nativi-
tatum secundum mathematicos — De Tonitbuum significatione —
Tabula Salomonis, etc. — Dispositio Gralieni phisici mfirmantium
original cover 4ito. S^c. xv. on vellum and paper

A very important collection, with fine diagrams and numerous tables, both
astronomical and geographical, very nicely written. Some of the geo-
graphical tables frequently allude to Britannia, Scotia, and Ibernia. The
" De tonitruum Significatione,1' contains some remains of the Scientia ful-
guralis of the Etruscans, on the subject of which we hardly possess any-
thing else save the fragments contained in the mutilated work of L. Lydus
de Ostentis, published by the celebrated M. Hase, and a small tract written
by Bede perhaps from more ancient works.

93 Astbonomia : Tabula) Planetarum folio. Sisc. xv. on papeb

The numerical figures contained in this manuscript are all of the kind which we
call Arabic. The Tables begin with the year 1300.

On the subject of astronomy, see also Nos. 39, 212, 279, 483, 507, 568-
570, 646, 664, 665, 707, 716, 793, 846, 857, 984, 1095, 1111 and 1173 in
the present Catalogue.

94 Astbonomy, " Futuh-al-Kkairat fi al-'Amal bi-al-Eubu'-al-Mukantarat.''

An Arabic Treatise on the Use of the Quadrant, by Hussain-al-
Muwakkit 4<to. Sjec. xvii. on papeb

The author says that he has collected his work from the writings of ancient
and modern astronomers.

95 Astbonomy, " Eisalah fi al-'Amal bi-al-Usturlab," by Kurshiyar Bin

Lubban HalabI (of Aleppo.) In Arabic 4do. SiEC. xvii. on papeb

A valuable Treatise on the Use of the Astrolabe.

90 Astbonomy, &c. "Eisalak fi 'Ilm-al-Eiyazat wa al-Nujum," in Arabic

4to. Sjec. xvi. ON PAPEB

A Treatise of Astronomy, called " Yawaklt-al-Mawakit," written in verse.

97 Astbonomy. " Eahik-al-Makhtiim fi Sirr Ahkam-al-Nujum." Art of

Dialling (Horologia), in Arabic, by Shaikh Muhammad Sunnar.
Copied by Shaikh Sayid Ahmad from the author's original manu-
script, Anno Hegiras 1217 (a.d. 1801) 4<to. Sjec. xix. on papeb

98 Astbonomy. " Eisfdah fi 'Ilm-al-Hissab wa al-Hayat," by Shaikh Mu-

hammad Sunnar-al-Muwakkit, in Arabic Mo. S.ec. xviii. on papeb

A valuable Treatise on Dialling (Horologia), which the author says he has
taken from the works of the 'Ullama-al-AndalusI (of Spain).

99 Astbonomy. "Bisalah fi al-'Amal bi-al-E ubu' al-Easiim bi-al Mukantarat."

An Arabic Tract on the use of the Astronomical Quadrant. No
author's name or date Ylmo. S.ec. xviii. on papeb

24 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

100 Astronomy. " Tas-hil-al-Matfdib fi ta'adil-al-Kawakib." The first

part of an Arabic Treatise on the Revolution of the Stars, compiled
from several works 4<to. Smc. xvi. on paper

All the preceding Oriental manuscripts on Astronomy are scarce and valuable,
with astronomical tables, diagrams, etc.

We did not find any one of them mentioned in the list of works on the
same subject inserted by Mr. Morley in his Description of a Planispheric
Astrolabe; neither have we been able to discover any trace of them in
Haji Khalfa, or even in the great work of the celebrated Von Hammer,
Literatur der Anther. These as well as other Oriental Manuscripts on
Mathematics contained in this Catalogue, ought to be illustrated by Dr.
Woepcke and Mahmoud Effendi, both of whom have given in the Journal
Asiatique such convincing proofs of their knowledge of the subject.

101 Augueelli (J. A.) H. Stroza?, M. A. Elaminii et aliorum Poemata

Latina 4fo. SiEC. xvi. on paper

A very interesting collection of separate pieces, the most important of which
is the autograph Manuscript of the Crisopaiia by the celebrated Augu-
rellus, who was a friend of Aldus, and who died in 1524. This poem of
nearly 6U0 lines, with many alterations and corrections, is certainly in the
handwriting of the author, and some of the other pieces seem to be also in
the autographs of the various authors. From an ancient note it appears
that some of the verses contained in this collection " Desiderantur inpro-
sopopcria Ludovici Pici Mirandulam" which deficiency in the editions is
easily accounted for when we find that the suppressed verses begin with
" Verum age Sancle Pater, ccedis si tanta cupido est — Sanguinis humani si
tibi tanta sitis, etc.'''' The Crisopoeia is in the Bibliotheca Chemica of
Mangetus, (vol. II. p. 371-385.) Our original Manuscript begins at the
first line of Liber Primus, and ends with the last line of the same book,
having the word Finis afterwards. This seems to have been the first
sketch of the work, and it is very interesting to observe how such
celebrated modern Latin poets often altered a line several times in order
to give it perfection. (See facsimile.)

102 Augustunus (S. Episcopus) ad Optatum Episcopum de Origine Anima3

per Epistolam ; accedunt ex Libro Retractationum de Origine
Aniline Hominis et de Sententia Jacobi Apostoli — Hierontmus
de Anima — Orosii Presbyteri Epistolse ad Augustinum Episcopum
de Heresibus cum Questionibus et Eesponsionibus Augustini —
Augustike Explanatio de Symbolo Apostolico et Expositio Fidei
Catholics — Ami Disputatio detestanda cum Augustini Responsione
Catholica contra Arrianos — AjvrBROSiiEpiscopi Liber contra eosdem
Hereticos Arrianos — Augustini (Aurelii) Soliloquia
in the original oak hoards Ado. SiEC. x-xi. on vellum

A fine manuscript, consisting of 157 leaves of vellum in high state of preservation,
with several painted capitals, in the style of that period. Before the
Ex Libro Retractationum there are two blank pages, with some 'preparations
for illuminations, which were not carried into effect. The Arrii disputatio
with St. Augustine's reply is so scarce in Manuscripts, that not one is to
be found amongst the several hundred Manuscripts of St. Augustine men-
tioned in the " Catalogus Bibl. Reg. Paris." This Manuscript, written
in a small character, with the Rubrics in rustic capitals, in red, un-
doubtedly belongs to the second portion of the Xth, or the beginning
of the Xlth Century, although, according to a note on the cover by a
former possessor, it appears that it was described in a recent Catalogue as
being of the XHItli, then immediately resold as being of the Xllth,
and more recently again sold as of the XTth, a curious instance of the
depreciation suffered by Manuscripts, owing to unintelligent cataloguers.
At the end there is a drawing of the time, in colours, representing a
dragon. (See facsimile.)

THE LIBRI MANUSCKIPTS. 25

103 Augustinus (S.) de Fide; Enchiridion; Tractatus contra Par in en ia-

num Donatistam ; et Epistola ad Auxilium Episcopum Pelassiciano
cum tota Familia excommunicato
in the original binding folio. SiEC. xi. on yellum

A fine Manuscript in double columns, with curious initials, in a perfect state of
preservation. In a note at the beginning it is stated that it was written
about 1050. The fly-leaves seem more ancient, and at the beginning there
is a very curious Regula Monachorum,, also of the Xlth Century. The
whole of the numerous figures are according to the old Roman alphabetical
system . (See facsimile. )

104 Augustini (S. Aurelii) Liber de Karitate in Epistola Johannis Apostoli

folio. SMC. xi. ON YELLUM
A beautiful specimen of early Caligraphy, with very elegantly ornamented
capital letters. Unfortunately the Octavus Sermo is defective at the end.
It formerly belonged to the celebrated P. Pithou, and has his autograph.
The collection of Pithou was the most celebrated, during theXVIth Century,
for the antiquity of the Manuscripts contained therein, and almost two
centuries after his death they became national property, and are kept in the
public Libraries of Paris, Troyes and Montpellier. A few only remained
in the family, and these belonging then to M. de Rosambo, who received
them by inheritance, were sold at Paris in 1837, in the Duchess de Bern's
Sale (Bibliotheque de Rosny), where they created a great sensation amongst
collectors. The present manuscript was one of those then sold, as No. 2366.
See also Nos. 431 and 490 in the present Catalogue. (See facsimile.)

105 Augustini (S.) Confessiones — Hugonis de Sancto Victore in Eccle-

siasten Expositio — Anselmi Cantuariensis Episcopi Homilia in
"Introivit Jesus in quoddam Castellum "

folio. SiEC. xi — xii. on yellum

This volume was certainly written about the end of the Xlth or the beginning
of the Xllth Century, and most probably before the death of Anselm or
Hugo, whose writings are here. The Confessions of St. Augustine are
the most curious of his works, and the most difficult to find in old Manu-
scripts. In this as well as in the two previous manuscripts the whole of
the numerical figures are written according to the old Roman alphabetical
System. (See facsimile.)

106 Augustinus (B.) de Amicitia atque de Humilitate et Obedientia —

Ciceronis (M. T.) Lelius vel de Amicitia Liber

4tto. SiEC. xiii. on yellum

A fine manuscript. The work of Cicero has some marginal corrections and
various readings, possibly from other more ancient Manuscripts, and
valuable to the scholar. The text is very pure.

107 Augustini (B.) Epistola} (de Poena Damnatoruin ; de Vision e malorum

in Poenis ; de Morte ; de Avaritia ; de Luxuria ; de Amore Mulieris
fugienda; de Eva seducta a Serpente, &c. &c.) — Bernardi (B.)
Epistola? de Omissione Ornatus Ecclesia? et de Cura Altaris, et de
Usura — Hieronymi (B.) Epistola? de Concubinis fugiendis ; et de
Mulieribus fugiendis ; et de Divina Sapientia — Leonis Papa? Sermo
Assumptionis gloriosa? Yirginis Maria? — Ameroxii (D.) Epistola?
de Ebrietate, &c. — Epistola Clericorum et Plebis Hyponensis ad
B. Augustinum — De P^edestinatione — De Septem Dormientibus
— EpiSTOLiE de Jesu Christi morte, Lentuli et Pontii Pilati — De
Sancta Veronica et de turpissima Pilati Morte

in one vol. 4<to. SiEC. xiv. on paper,

A valuable collection. The curious history De Septem Dormientibus, and the
spurious tract relating to Pilate, etc. are of such uncommon occurrence
that Haenel only found three Manuscripts in which this last was contained,
one at Strasburg, and two at Basle.

26 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

108 Augustini (B ) Flores in Libris de Civitate Dei, de Doctrina Christiana,

Confessionum, LXXXIII Qusestionum et Retractationum, Tabella
sive repertorium super Libris Retractationum, Enchiridion,
LXXXIII Qusestionurn, de Eide, de Trinitate, super G-enesim et
de libero Arbitrio folio. Sj3C. xv. on paper

Written on paper, in which a goose is the watermark. The first page is sur-
rounded by an elegant border, and as well as the Initial Capital, richly
illuminated in gold and colours. At the end of this Manuscript we read

these words, " Quorum autorem ignoro;" written in the XVth

Century.

109 Augustini (S.) Eegula cum Expositione Yenerabilis Doctoris Sancti

Ugonis de Sancto Victore (Latine et Italice)

folio. Sjec. xv. (1440) on vellum

Written on very pure vellum, with the first capital richly illuminated, and the
date of the manuscript at end : Scripta anno dominice incarnationis millesimo
quadrigentesimo quadragesimo. In a later hand, but of the same century,
is "Ordo ad chrismandum pueros." This manuscript formerly belonged to the
Augustinian Library at Piacenza. Not only is this translation (which is in
good old Italian, although the copy has several Loinbardisms) unpublished,
but it seems even quite unknown as no mention of it occurs in Argelati.

110 Augustini (S.) Eegula cum Expositione — La eiegola del doctor mis.

s<"o agustiuo volgarizada p. el venerabele mis. don Marin Querini
da san Griorgi dailega (d'Alga) mccccx. — Benedictiones et Eorma
Professionis, &c.
in the original binding 4to. S^;c. xv. ON vellum

Beautifully written for an Italian nunnery, on pure vellum, with three elegant
initials, illuminated in gold and colours, viz. 1. Portrait of St. Augustine.
2. A Nun praying to the Madonna and Infant. 3. A Bishop blessing a
Nun. This early Italian translation of St. Augustine, by the Reformer
of the Venetian Monastery of S. Georgio in Alga, is quite unknown to
Tiraboschi, Argelati, and Agostini, which last named author speaks of Marin
Querini without mentioning this translation.

111 Austyn (Seint) his Meditacions and Confessions in Engltsshe —

"Here bygynnyth a tretise that men callith Richarde of seynt
victor" — " Carta redempcionis (in English verse) — A songe of love
to owre lorde jhu criste (in Verse) — Ave quene of heven (a Poem) —
Christ's Address to Sinners (in Verse) — Various Verses (running
on as if written in Prose)
in the binding of Henry VIII, with the Tudor rose and Royal Arms
impressed on the cover folio. S.EC. xiv. on vellum

A very important Manuscript, formerly in the library of King Henry VIII, for
whom it seems to have been re-bound. The capitals throughout are illu-
minated in gold and colours. We have been unable to find any mention of
the various ancient English poems contained in this volume. The translation
of St. Austin, and probably the others, would appear to have been made
at the request of some nuns, as the translator commences the 34th chapter,
" Thankyd be almyhti god my gode sustren. I have now pformyd yr
desyre in englysshinge these meditacions, &c." Throughout this highly
interesting manuscript the th is written in a shape between the y and the v, and
the initial y almost as a 3. We subjoin here the beginning of " the Songe
of Love," contained in this collection, which formerly belonged to a sove-
reign of England :

" Ihu most swettcst of any thynge
To love yow I have gvete longyng
Therfore I byseche yow hevyn kyngc
Make me of yowre love to have felinge." (See facsimile.)

THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS. 27

112 Autographs. A Collection of nearly One Hundred and Fifty Auto-

graphs of Eminent or Learned Men, cut out of an " Album Ami-
corum " (or perhaps several) and arranged in Alphabetical order
half bound folio

Amongst these autographs are those of the following authors : B. Albinus,
Lugd. Bat. 1713— J. G. Baierus, Jence, 1691— J. F. Buddeus, Jence 1707—
A. Calovius, Witebergce, 1670 — B. Carpzovius, Witebergce, An. 93 — C.
Chemnitius, Jena, 1654— E. S. Cyprianus, Gothce, 1741— J. A. Danz,
Jence, 1691— J. Hildebrand, Helmstadt, 1654— C. J. Huth, Jence, 1741—
T. Ittig, Lipsice, 1709 -Poly carp Caspar Leyser, Witteb. 1 670— Polycarp
Leyser, Cellis, 1740— Gerhard Von Mastrieht, 1711— J. G. Meuschen
Hagce, 1711— J. H. Michaelis, Hake, 1710— J. Olearius, Lipsice, 1709—
Lucas Osiander, Tubingce, 1629 — C. Vitringa, Franekerce, 1711 — J. C.
Wagenseil, Altdorf, 1669— J. G. Walchius, Jence, 1741, &c. &c.

113 Autographs. A Collection of Ten Autograph Letters of Eminent

Italians, namely: Saverio Mattei (the translator of the Psalms) 1;
Conte Griammaria Mazzuchelli (the learned author of the Scrittori
d' Italia) 6 ; L. A. Muratori (the celebrated Historian) 2, &c. &c.

4<to. Sjec. xviii. on paper

Respecting autographs see also Nos. 1136, 1137, &c, in the present Catalogue.

114 Baillet (Adrien) Vie de Edmond Eicher, Docteur de Sorbonne

4fo. SiEC. xviii. on paper

This is the autograph of a biography important for the history of the Eglise
GalUcane, which, although printed at Amsterdam in 1715, may be con-
sidered almost as unpublished, since the Abbe Goujet assures us that the
edited account differs in many essential points from Baillet1s own manu-
script.

115 Baldi (Dottore Cammillo " da Bologna",) Trattato del Modo di parlare

bene — Dei Segni delle Lettere — Dello Stile et Eaccolta di
Eisposte pacifiche et civili — Dubii Amorosi con le Eisposte]
vellum 4to. SiEC. xvi. on paper

With the autograph of " Girolamo Gentile da San Marino in Bologna, 1599."
This curious work, Dubii amorosi, is quite unknown, even to Fantuzzi,
who, in his nine folio volumes on the writers of Bologna, has a long article
on this learned opponent of Galileo.

lib' Baldi (Dottore Cammillo) da Bologna del trattar civilmente ; della
Morale ; come si possa parlare lodevolmente ; de' segni delle Let-
tere ; dello Stile 4 parts in one vol. 4to. Sjzc. xvi. on paper

Very legibly written. On the fly-leaf is written, " Ad usum Marii Compagnoni."
These works seem also unpublished and unknown, except to Mazzuchelli,
(Scritt. d 'Italia, vol. III. p. 127) who mentions them and states that
" non hanno veduta la luce." The manuscript contains marginal autograph
notes of the author.

117 Balestrieri (Fulvio) Exercier^Zettul vor 1 oder 2 Battaillons und

Verhaltung 4 vols. 8vo. SiEC xviii. on paper

A complete Treatise on Military Exercise for Infantry, with Diagrams.

118 Ballo. A Collection of Dance-Tunes, with the Figures for Dancing

and Explanations in Italian below 8vo. S^c. xviii. on paper

This curious little volume preserves forty-one tunes, with the names, such as
L lnglese, La Vincmester, La Scozese, LTrlandese, La Mora, La Pollas-
trma, &c. attached. Prefixed are nine other similar tunes with French
headings, in a separate bool

)k.

28 THE LIBEI MANUSCBIPTS.

119 Balocho (Antonii de) Quadragesimale de duodecim Mysteriis Christiana?

Fidei
the early part stained and damaged Mo. Smc. xv. on paper

An account of Antonius de Balocho, generally called Antonius de Vercelliis.
a celebrated preacher who lived about 1480, will be found in Wadding
(Script. Ord. Min. p. 21.)

120 Barattieri (Conte Gian. Francesco) Elementi di Musica Teorica e

Pratica secondo i Principii di M. llameau folio. 1766, on paper

An autograph and unpublished manuscript completely prepared for the press. The
name of this author is not mentioned by M. Fetis, and seems quite unknown.

121 Barthe. Dissertation sur la Ville d'Ugerno Colonie G-recque, a laquelle

a succede Beaucaire folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

With interesting information relating to the ancient remains of that colony.

122 Bartholom^ei de S. Concordio, " Pisani, Ordinis Prredicatorum," Sunnna

Casuum Conscientise secundum Alphabetum ordinata et absoluta
Anno Domini mcccxxxyiii. original binding, with ornamented brasses

folio. SiEC xv. (1444) on paper

This important Manuscript appears to have been written in 1 444, that year being
placed at the top of the first page, and the date of 1338 must therefore
be regarded as the date of the composition of the work itself. The following
colophon occurs at the conclusion : " Consummatum fuit hoc opus per
fratrem Bartholomeum de Sancto Concordio Pisanum Ordinis Fratrum
Prcndicatorum in Civitate Pisana qui Dicitur Nastrucius de Pisis, Anno
Domini mcccxxxviii. die Mensis Decembris Tempore Sanctissimi Patris
Domini Benedicti Papce XII." The word Nastrucius is we suppose a cor-
ruption for Maestrucius, as the work itself was sometimes called the Summa
Maestruccia of Father Bartholomseus, who was one of the most celebrated
Italian writers of the fourteenth century. At the end of this Manuscript
there are Qucedam Declarationes abbreviaturarum, most useful to the
student of the old manuscripts, and a long Index, which are not in the
. following. After the colophon there is an old note, stating that there
were two different works under the title of Summa Casuum, by the same
author.

123 BARTiioLOMiEi de Sancto Concordio Summa Casuum Conscientiae

alphabetice ordinata folio. Sjec. xv. (14G5) on paper

With the name of the scribe, place and date, and also for whom written :
" Completus fuit libellus iste per me Johannem de Leodio in Arche maiori
Assisii pro Revcrendo in Christo Patre et Domino Domino P. de Caffarellis
de Urbe Episcopo et excellenti Principe Asculano pro tempore in eadem Arche
Castellano, Anno Domini mcccclxv."

124 Bartholomew " Frisonis Carthusiensis," de Ortu et Revelatione Anti-

christi Epistola Mo. Sjec. xv. on paper

A manuscript dated, "Ex Ruremunda Anno Christi mcccclxxxvi, Mense Januarii
die vin." with other curious Treatises in the volume, chiefly on Music and
Chanting, with Notes. Fabricius (Dibl. Lat. Med. vol. i. p. 177) quotes
a Bartholomews Carthusiensis Prior lluremundse Grueldrise, who died in
1446 and cannot be the same if the date is correct. At any rate this
work on the Antichrist seems unknown. At the end there is a mathe-
matical tract (of six pages) with diagrams respecting horologia, or gnomonia,
apparently unpublished.

125 Bartholomei de Vitellensibus de Corneto, "Episcopi Cornetani et

Montis Flascone," Memoriale ad Passagium Mortis tute faciendum
old silk binding Mo. Sjec. xv. on paper

This author seems entirely unknown to Fabricius. On the lining of the cover is
the date of 1478.

THE LJBIU MANUSCBIPTS. 20

120 Bartoli (P. Daniel) " dell a Compagnia di Giesu," Saggio di Poesia al
molto ill. S'g. Giuseppe Cittadelia Bologna, Sjec. xvii — Baccanali
o Poesie Ditirambiche di Poeti illustri de' nostri Tempi raecolte da
Carlo Irerieo Bragavola Ferrarese, SiEC. xviii

4<to. Smc. xvii. and xviii. on taper

The Manuscript of Bartoli is contemporary with the author, and is valuable
as proving that the poems published under the name of his nephew,
Giobattista Bartoli, were in reality written by the uncle himself, a fact
suspected and asserted by Quadrio (Stor. vol. II. p. 313). The Collection of
the Baccanali contains poems by A.E. Mosti, G.B.Zappi, C.F.Marcheselli,
G. Baruffaldi, Conte L. Magalotti, E. M. Zanotti and G. Gigli. The
Balzana of the last author, included in this volume, is one of the most
singular poems written by this celebrated humorous writer.

127 Baruffaldi (Girolamo) " Seniore," La Suor Uscita, Intermezzi due in
Vernacolo Ferrarese — Libro secondo dell' Asino d'Oro di Lucio
Apulejo diviso in due Canti e traslatato in Ottava Rima dal Dottore
Vittore Vettori, unpublished ivith autograph letter from the
translator to Baruffaldi, to which are appended 11 pages of corrections,
1739 — Giornale Poetico Adunanze I e II, 1727 — II Passatempo
delle SS. Fantastica e Capricciosa Terzine — Versi di G. Baruffaldi,
fatti dopo la seconda Rappresaglia de suoi MSS. l'Anno 1745,
a 15 Luglio — Intermezzo, Pasquella e Lindorina, etc. — Segreti
diversi, 1743 Mo. SiEC. xviii. on taper

With the exception of the Apuleius in the autograph of Vettori, all the other
Manuscripts are in the handwriting of Baruffaldi, and are unpublished.
Girolamo Baruffaldi the elder, was one of the most learned men of his time,
alike distinguished for historical and classical knowledge. A life and
a long list of his works, printed and manuscript, (amounting to cxxvi.) will
be found in Mazzuchelli {Scrittori d' Italia, vol. II. part I. p. 483-93).
His Manuscripts were twice seized by order of the Pope, once in 1711, as
recorded by Mazzuchelli, and again in 1745, as we learn from the heading
to the Versi in this volume ; a fact, however, which has escaped the notice
of his biographers. This, therefore, will account for so many of his
manuscript works now offered for sale, being totally unknown to Mazzu-
chelli and others who have written his life. Two intermezzi, called La
Suor uscita, written in the dialect of Ferrara, are, like other tracts in this
volume, of a burlesque satirical character. The Segreti are of great im-
portance for the history of arts and manufactures, as they are not chemical
dreams, but contain useful receipts — how to manufacture steel; how to
make different colours ; how to make, paint and mend various sorts of
glass ; to make ink ; to wash out stains ; to gild metals, skins, &c. ; to
write in gold ; to render bones flexible and then to harden them again ; to
make glue, varnish, &c. &c. ; and even how to make a sort of fulminating
powder with mercury.

128 Baruffaldi (G.) Eagionamenti Poetici

folio. Sjec. xviii. (about 1720) on paper

An autograph manuscript, containing besides Essays on Rhyme and " diversi
Rimarii" with Extracts, a very important Dissertation on the various
Editions and Changes of the Text of the Gerusalemme liber ata of TASso,with
Letters from Dr. J. Facciolati and Dr. J. Lanzoni relative to autograph
notes of Guarini and 0. Magnanini written on the margins of their copies
of that celebrated poem. The various readings of Tasso's poem mentioned
in this manuscript are numerous and important. The bibliographical
account of the various autograph manuscripts and early editions of Tasso,
given in this volume by Baruffaldi, is also very interesting.

129 Baruffaldi (G.) La Lum' dal Manegh Dialoghi familiari in Lingua

Ferrarese composti da Ubaldo Magri Farolfi (G. Baruffaldi)

4to. S.EC. xviii. (1719) on taper
In the dialect of Ferrara. These vernacular little plays (ten in number) have
never been printed.

30 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

130 Baruffaldi (Gr.) Operette varie, cioe : Copiosa Dichiarazione de

Precetti di S. Chiesa cod l'Aggiunta d'alcune Laudi Spirituali, 1704
— Leggenda della Vita e Miracoli della Beata Beatrice Estense
Eondatrice del Monasterio di S. Antonio di Eerrara estratta da un
originale antico pergameno (1488) 1719— Cognomi e Eamiglie di
Cento e suo Territorio tanto Partecipanti qnanto Eumanti, 1750 —
Memorie delle Cose appartenenti al Card. Taddeo Luigi dal Verme
Vescovo di Eerrara, 1717 — Rime di Bartolommeo Eerrino Eerrarese
con alcuni suoi Versi Latini et una Orazione in Lode della Virtu
raccolte e trascritte dal Baruffaldi — Disconso dell' Ambasciatore
dello Stato Ecclesiastico al Conclave per la Sede vacante di Cle-
mente XII. fatto in otto distinte TJdienze — Opere stampate e
Manoscritte del Sig. Arciprete Gr. Baruffaldi (a long printed list
with MS. additions) — Albero Genealogico dei Baruffaldi

4<to. SiEC. xviii. on paper

All in Baruffaldi's autograph. The Leggenda contains much historical infor-
mation about the D'Este Family (connected with the Royal Family of
England) from the seventh century to the thirteenth. It is written in a
sort of old dialect, and in all probability unpublished. B. Ferrino (dead
in 1545) was the secretary of Hercole II, Duke of Ferrara. A great portion
of his poems collected here by Baruffaldi are unpublished.

131 Baruffaldi (Gh) Notizie d'alcuni Poeti Eerraresi estratte dall' Opera

Manoscritta dell' Italiana Poesia di Alessandro Ziliolo, 1705 —
Vocabolario manuale d'alcune Voci Latine o d'altro Linguaggio
straniero lequali si trovano nel Vecchio e Nuevo Testamento, nel
Messale, Breviario et in altri simili Libri compilato da Gr. Baruffaldi
per Uso de' Cherici, &c. 1730 — Rimario delle Voci Italiane per
Uso proprio da Gr. Baruffaldi, 1701 — Nuovo Rimario delle Voci
Italiane usate licenziosamente da diversi poeti antichi e moderne,
1742— Osservazioni Poetiche circa l'Ordine, Erase e Testitura del
Verso, 1697 — Memorie della Chiesa Parrochiale Collegiata di S.
Biagio di Cento, 1750 — Aristeneto, Epistole Amorose tradotte da
Cluento Nettunio (Baruffaldi) 1703 — Opisologia Dialogo famigliare
intorno all' Inscrizione sulla Cappella di S. Petronio nella Basilica
del Medesimo in Bologna, 1746 4to. SvEC. xvii-xviii. on paper

All in the autograph of Baruffaldi, and unpublished. They contain valuable
information relating to the literary and ecclesiastical history of Ferrara.
The great work of Ziliolo, although often quoted from manuscripts, was
never printed. Respecting another manuscript of Aristeneto, see also No. 72
in the present Catalogue.

132 Baruffaldi (Gr.) delle Origini d'alcune Voci Italiane, o tralasciate o

mal trovate da Ottavio Ferrari e da Egidio Menagio, nuovamente
scoperte folio, 1736, on paper

An autograph Manuscript of this distinguished scholar. In the same volume are
three other manuscripts, likewise in his autograph, namely, I. Monumenti et
Inscrizioni nella Chiesa di S. Biagio e poi Collegiata della Terra di Cento
Dio cesi di Bologna 1'Anno 1730 quando fu cominciata a demolersi.
II. Monumenti et Iscrizioni nella Terra di Cento e suo Territorio con
Annotazioni. III. Giornale della Morte di tutti i Sommi Pontefici Romani
da S. Pietro fino al Regnante Benedetto XIV. This last is arranged as a
Calendar. All these unpublished works of the learned author of the
Tabaccheide are full of curious information, and interesting documents,
inscriptions, &c. To show the importance of the first work on the Italian
etymologies we quote only a few lines at the beginning of it : " Ghetto,
Quartiere dove habitano uniti i Giudei. II Ferrari dice di non saperne
l'origine Ignotm originis. II Menagio ne fa uno tiramento da Judaicetum
quasi Ccetus Judceorum ma non Findovina ; ghet e voce ebrea la quale, secondo
i Talmudisti, significa Ripudio, divorzio, separazione," etc. etc.

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133 Baruffaldi (Q-.) Prose e Kime cioe : Vita del Card. Taddeo dal
Yerme Vescovo di Ferrara, con due Orazioni funebri in Lode dello
stesso dal Baruffaldi e del P. Anton Franc. Bellati — Canto XV. di
Bertoldo e I di Cacaseno — Tumtjli ed Epitaffi compositi degli Acca-
demici della Vigna in Morte del Dottor Giuseppe Chito Ferrarese,
1726— Apologhi con le Moralita, 1737 — La Babilonia Poetica
Sonetti composti in vari Linguaggi popolari di diverse Provincie,
Citta et Terre del Mondo et raccolti da Malessio Montefiamina da
Mussa Babilonico, 1704 — Rime varie d' Antonio Chiarelli Ferrari da
Cento, raccolte dall' Arciprete Girolamo Baruffaldi con la Vita del
. Medesimo, 1754 4<to. 8jec. xviii. on paper

All in Baruffialdi's autograph, and several of them unpublished. The Cantos of
Bertoldo and Cacasenno form part of a burlesque poem, which is celebrated
in Italy, and was written by several poets acting separately. The Babi-
lonia is a most singular collection of sonnets, written by Baruffaldi, in
1701, under a false name, in various dialects (namely Ferrarese, Genovese,
Veneziano, Popolare Ebraico, Imolese, Comacchiese, Bolognese, Cremo-
nese, Bergamasco, Padovano, Modenese, Mantovano, etc.) and all unpub-
lished.

131 Baruffaldi (G.) i Cenotaffi Sonetti da esso composti in un sno Viaggio
ideale e fantastico nello Spazio di due Mesi sopra i Sepolcri di Molti
Poeti Volgari con un breve Bagguaglio delle Vite et Opere de' mede-
simi Poeti Mo. S^ac. xviii. (1749), on paper

An autograph manuscript, completely prepared for publication. The numerous
biographies contained in this unpublished work are very valuable, and
include many names which are scarcely to be found elsewhere. There are
two Indexes at the end.

135 Baruffaldi (Nicolo) Diario Ecclesiastico della "Citta e Diocesi di
Ferrara, continuata et accreciuta notablimente da Girolamo suo
Figliuolo folio. S^ec. xviii. (1715-21), on paper

This highly important and interesting Manuscript, which is in the autograph
of Girolamo Baruffaldi, has never been published. The lives of Saints
contained in this work (including some curious anecdotes relating to
the celebrated founder of the Jesuits S. Ignatius) are very interesting.
The sacred Functions for each day of the year are strictly arranged under
each month. Next follows the " Feste e Funzioni mobili," giving an
account of the Carnival, Races, &c. &c. For the Ecclesiastical History
of Ferrara, this valuable Manuscript, consisting of 759 pages, presents
many curious facts which will be sought in vain elsewhere.

13G Basilii Magni " Archiepiscopi Csesaria? Capadotise," ad Nepotes de
legendis Auctoribus Gentilibus Libellus. — Hierontmus Presbyter
de Liberorum Officiis erga Parentes (Leonardo Aretino interprete,
cum ejusdem ad Colutium Prsefatione) 4zfo. SiEC. xv. on vellum

This treatise of S. Basil was sometimes called De liberalibus Studiis, which
induced Niceron to make two different works of the same book.

137 Bateri (T. S.) Grammatica Indica cum Vocabulario

half red morocco 4<to. Siec. xviii. (1733), on paper

This volume, written at St. Petersburg!!, is in the autograph of Bayer, the well-
known author of the Museum Sinicum, etc. etc.

138 Becucci (Domenico) " Preposto di S. Felice a Ema," Breve Esposizione

delle Meditazioni e Biforme sentite nei Santi Esercizi

4ito. 1708, ON PAPER

139 Bed^e Presbtteri Commentaries in S. Marcum

green morocco folio. SiEC. viii. on vellum

This Manuscript, a fine specimen of the caligraphy of the eighth century,

in all probability written by an English scribe (as it appears bv comparing

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it with the facsimiles of the most ancient English manuscripts given by
Astle in his Origin of Writing,) must be regarded as cotemporary with the
author himself, or within a very few years of his death, which took place
ill 735. An interesting fact is that this venerable Manuscript contains

the WHOLE OF THE GOSPEL OF SAINT MARK WRITTEN IN A LARGE

red uncial character, each sentence being followed by the commen-
tary of Bede, written in a sort of Merovingian character. In every respect
this manuscript seems undoubtedly to have been written before the reforma-
tion introduced by Charlemagne in the art of writing. If this manuscript was
not written in England, it was at least written in some of the monasteries
established on the Continent by early Anglo-Saxon or Irish missionaries, like
St. Columban, and in which the British influence was long preserved. This
would account for a work of so celebrated an English writer being known
and copied abroad at such an early period. If such was the case (and the
pro Deo amure mentioned in the present note seems to corroborate that sup-
position) we strongly suspect that this manuscript was copied in France,
at the Luxcuil Abbey, in the Vosges, respecting which see also Nos. 356, 495,
496, 891, 892, in the present Catalogue. Another very curious fact for the
biblical scholar is that at the beginning of the gospel of S. Mark, the

words ET EGREDIAEATUR AD ILLUM OMN1S IUDEiE REGIO ET 1IIEROSO-

LYMiTiE universi, which are not in the editions of Bede, are wanting also
in this venerable Manuscript. We must add that some marginal notes
at the beginning are written in capital rustic characters, and that at the
bottom of the reverse of the first leaf there are (in a very ancient hand)
these words written by an ancient owner and still legible : pro Deo amure,
which have a great resemblance to the beginning of the celebrated oath of
Louis le Gcrmanique pro Deo Amur, etc. (of the year 842.) After the
Prologus this Manuscript contains an index of the XLVI Capitula into
which the work is divided, which index however is wanting in Dr. Giles'
edition. There are also many other variations from the text as edited by
Dr. Giles, who (as we learn from his preface) had only Manuscripts of the
XHIth Century to assist him in his edition of this work. It is almost
superfluous to state that all the numerical figures in this venerable Manu-
script (and we may add, in the following one) are according to the Roman
Alphabetical system. {See facsimile.)

1-10 Bedje Presbttert Historia Gentis Anglorum Ecclesiastica
(Prsefixa est) Vita et Translatio S. Neoti, etc.

folio. Sjec. x — xi. on vellum

This extremely valuable Manuscript, in which the author is styled Verier ahilis,
was apparently written by an English or Anglo-Saxon scribe, as the S is
occasionally used for th, and the Latin ending of such names as Oswald,
&c. omitted. Immediately before each book this Manuscript contains a
detailed list of the contents of the chapters therein, which being omitted
by Dr. Giles in his edition, could not have been seen in any Manuscript
he collated. The text throughout is extremely pure. The Life of St.
Neot is anonymous, and is followed by the " Translatio Corporis ; Sermones
de Translatione Corporis, Confessoris Vita ac Miraculis." This portion
concludes with a letter of Abbo Floriacensis relative to his Life of St.
Edmund. Besides these works, this Manuscript contains some " Homilise
in S. Neoti vitam," and some Festivitates added by another writer at the
very beginning. This Manuscript is beautifully written in a rather large
character, with large capitals and titles in red rustic capitals. The
numerous numerical figures are invariably written according to the old
Roman alphabetical system. This Manuscript contains a great number of
valuable various readings, which are not mentioned by Dr. Giles, and
which would prove very useful to a new editor. For instance, at the
beginning, instead of millia as in the edition, this Manuscript always has
miliaria, and instead of " interposito mari a Gessoriaco," as in Dr. Giles,
this has A gessoriaco, which is certainly a better reading. There are how-
ever much more important variations which would require almost a volume
to describe them accurately. Thus in the Notitia de se ipso, etc., the Maim-

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 33

script does not mention the work In Isaiam, Danielem, cluodecim Pro-
phetas, etc. which is in the edition. At the end of the same notitia the
Manuscript has most properly a long sentence beginning with " Preterea
omnes ad quos" etc., which by Dr. Giles is placed at the end of the
Prologus. Also in the Bede epitome at the end, the Manuscript has some
information relating to the years dccxxxiii. and dccxxxiiii. which in
the edition (with some difference) are placed in the Epitome auctore
anonymo. These few hints are sufficient to show the importance of
this Manuscript, containing a work so interesting for the History of
England. (See facsimile.)

141 Bellaja (Nicolo) Sua Informazione delle injuste molestie apportate

dai Venetiani nel Polesine d'Ariano pel Taglio di Porto Riviero,
Autograph, Ferrara, 1632, on paper — Layori per Arginatura di
Primaro, S^c. xviii. on paper — Regolamenti di Vienna per Affari
Ecclesiastici, 1768, on paper — Faustini (Dottore Giuseppe) Elogio
del Conte Ottavio Boari, S^;c. xviii. on paper — Baruffaldi
(Ambrogio) Copia fedele d'una Carta del Polesine di S. Giorgio
esistente nella Camera de Lavorieri di Ferrara, 1774, on paper —
Alphanus (Petrus) Lettera sulle Riforme di Contabilita per la
Cassa Ducal e di Eerrara sotto Ercole I, Autograph (6 pages),
S^c. xvi. on paper — Mazzantii (Nicolai) Diploma in Laurea (in
Canon and Civil Law) beautifully written on vellum, with the
official Signatures of the Chancellor and the .Notary Public, and
adorned with three fine Illuminations in gold and colours, by
H. Grillus, representing 1, A Sick-Room, with a Lady seated in
bed receiving a cup of caudle from a servant, whilst another servant
seated on a chair is preparing to wash the child. Beneath the Arms of
Mazzanti ; 2, Miniature of S. Petronius ; 3, An Initial C, in which
a turret is painted. The artist seems also to have been the scribe
of this fine MS. for at the end are the words : " Hieronymus Grillus
Bonon. scripsit et miniavit "), 1635, on vellum — Ercolo I. D'Este
Concessione data al Erate Marino de Baldo di poter costruire la
Chiesa della Consolazione in Eerrara, official transcript of the
original deed, " Ego Franciscus de Candis S'ecretarius et de niandato
et scripsi et subscripsi," folio, 1500, on yellum — Eormulario di
Carteggio o di Lettere, S^c. xvi. on paper — Eondazione del
Convento delle Orsoline in Eerrara, copy of the original document on
vellum, dated 1696, SiEC. xix. on paper

4<fo. ^>mc. xvi, xvii, xviii, xix.

A curious collection, with important information relating to the ecclesiastical

history of Ferrara, and the history of the hydraulical works connected

with the river Po. The Diploma by Grillo, written partly in gold, and finely

illuminated, is well worthy the attention of the collector.

142 Belial durch Jacob von Teramo, in Deutsch gebracht

in the original binding, with brass bosses Mo. Sjec. xv. on paper

A very elegant version, without the name of the translator, of a work which
was extremely popular during the X Vth Century. It was written in Latin
by Jacobus de Theramo or de Ancharano, afterwards Archbishop of
Taranto, in 1382, when only 33 years old, and whilst still a Diaconus
and Canonicus at Aversa. The author probably has truly represented
how a legal action was then conducted according to the Canon Law, and
in this respect it is curious as one of the oldest forms of ecclesiastical trial
that have reached our time. Christ is the Accused, Belial the Complainant
and Representative of Hell, with full powers of attorney, Moses the Counsel
for Jesus, Daniel the official Notary, and Azael the Court Messenger.
Solomon is appointed by God to try the case, which is argued right
learnedly, Counsel on both sides boldly quoting their Corpus Juris Cano-
nici, and is finally carried even to an appeal.

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143 Benedicti (S.) Vita quam B. Gregorius Papa composuit ; cum aliis

Opusculis de S. Benedicto, etc. Svo. S^ec. xv. on paper

This valuable Collection of Works chiefly relating to St. Benedict is inscribed
" Libellus largitus Sco Vitali Monachorum oh solatium ipsorum illuc confiuen-
tium." It contains, besides the Life by Pope Gregory, Legends respecting
the Saint, collected from various sources, such as Gordianus, the Chronicon
Cassinense, the Abbot Desyderius, Paulus Diaconus, Vincent of Beauvais,
&c; the Sermones S. Bernardi; the Regula Monialium S. Augustini ;
Regula S. Basilii; Regula et Norma vivendi B. Hieronymi; Speculum
Monasticon S. Bernardi.

The volume contains also "Poemata Pauli Diaconi Aquilegiensis,
Patriarchates Longopardorumque Historiographi prsecipui,1' as well as
poems " Bertharii Martyris et Marci Poetse Laureati." The verses of
Paulus Diaconus, placed erroneously by Cave, (Script. Eccles. Hist. Lit.
vol. I, p. 636,) amongst the Opera Deperdita, are a curious specimen of what
is termed reciproci, the commencement of the Hexameter being repeated
in the Pentameter. The Metrical Praises of St. Benedict by Bertharius,
who although descended from the Royal Line of France, renounced his rank
and became Abbot of Monte Cassino, and was martyred by the Saracens
in 884, and those of Mark the Poet, surname d here Laureatus (a fact
unknown to Leyser or Fabricius) are good specimens of Middle-Age Poetry,
especially the poem of Mark, the pupil and friend of St. Benedict, which
is styled by Peter Damian Carmen x>enustumy and by Trithemius, Carmen
elegantissime currens.

Next follows D antes Poeta Laureatus " in Canticis Paradisi in
Laude Benedicti Abbatis," in Italian. Besides the foregoing this volume
contains : Epistola venerabilis Monachi D. Urbani de Congregatione
Sancta? Justina? de Padua in Nece horrenda excellentissimi Geleazmarim
Mediolanensium Ducis ad Abbatem ; Johannis Maria? Abbatis R. Papiensis
in Obitu D. Mutinensis Epistola; L. A. Seneca? Epistola ad Neronem
Imp. cum ejusdem Responsione ; Abroxii Epistola ad Eugenium Pontificem
Maximum ; Oratio Ducissa? Calabria? coram Pio II ; Epistola Leonardi
de Pontremulo de Terrsemotu Neapolitano scripta 13 die Decembris,
1456; Breve Sixti IV ; Cardinalis Hungarke Capitulo Generali Epistola;
Recepta contra Pullices, Pediculos, Cimices et Mures ; Epistola Rectorum
Consilii Ragusii ad Capitulum Generale 1420 missa, etResponsio; Admo-
nitio facta ad quendam Hominem ; Militum Conventus Rhodiani ad Regem
Ferdinandum Epistola ; Florentiorum ad Breve Sisti IV Responsio ;
Nomina septem Sapientum Gra?cia? ; Vita Secundi Philosophi ; Heschinis,
Demadis et Demosthenis Orationes ; Socratis et Axiochi Epistola? ; Mira-
cula B. Gregorii de Traiano Imperatore; Epistola Pontii Pillati de Jesu
Christo • hentuli Epistola de Christo ; Epistola? Seneca? ad Paulum cum
responsionibus ; Modii Carmina Moralia ; Excerpta varia ; S. Ignatii et
S. Maria? Virginis Epistola? ; Constitutionibus varia? monachorum (S. Au-
gustini, S. Basilii, S. Benedicti, S. Pachomii, S. Francisci, etc.) The
abstract of the Dante in this manuscript, contains the whole of the 22nd
Canto of the Paradise, and it has interesting ancient Latin glosses. At
the end there is a Greek alphabet with the pronunciation like that by the
modern Greeks.

This manuscript (containing numerous ancient tracts, abstracts, &c,
collected by a very learned man, who frequently quotes Dante, and other
classics, as well as original chronicles), consists of several hundred pages,
and affords new and interesting information relative to St. Benedict and
his times. The influence of this extraordinary man, who gave a constitu-
tion and a government to monachism in Europe, has been acknowledged'
by all the historians of the middle ages, but nowhere has the character and
importance of the labours of St. Benedict been so fully appreciated as in
the celebrated and unrivalled Cours d^Histoire Moderne, by M. Guizot
(XI Ve Lecon).

144 Benedicti (S.) Regula? cum Declaratorio et Ordinationibus. Finit

Ordo Capituli Generalis celebrandi secundum Consuetudinem Con-

gregationis Diva? Justina? Patavina? 4to. Smc. xv. (1404) on paper

This valuable manuscript belonged to the Monastery of St. Giustina itself, and

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has valuable additions in a later hand. These include a Tabula Alphabetica
accommodatissima ad inveniendum quicquid volueris in Declaratorio Pairum ;
Orationes ; Taxes reformatce ; Forma conficiendi Liter 'as ; &c. with many-
valuable notes, pointing out when any of the Rules were altered or abro-
gated. Some of the additions are of the year 1508. In a Modus visitandi
ecclesias monasterio subjectas, towards the end, is stated " Primo interrogetur
si titulum habeat benehcii et quod ostendat...Item si tenet concubinam vel
aliam mulierem. Item si vadit at tabernam. Si ludit ad aleas vel taxillos
et ad cartas. Item si mi&cet se tripudiis cum fceminis," etc. This is a
very ancient mention of playing cards, which, already, at the time in which
these rules were written, seems to have been almost a general custom.

115 Benigjsti (Georgii) " Archiepiscopi Nazareni" Libellus de Virginis
Matris Assumptione 4to. SiEC. xvi. ox paper

This Prelate was considered as one of the first Theologians of his age. He
was promoted to be Archbishop in 1513 by Pope Julius II, and appears to
have died in the same year.

146 Bergamo. Constitutiones Collegii Medicorum Civitatis Pergami

Venetian binding 4<to. S^ec. xv. (8 Jan. 1448) on vellum

At the end are two additional Constitutions, dated 9 Oct. 1534, and 4 July,
1541, with the official signatures and seal. These Constitutions are un-
published, and very curious. Nobody was allowed to take fees as a physi-
cian, unless he had studied physic at least during six years, and had been
received in the College of Physicians at Bergamo. The § 20 says, " Sta-
tuerunt sortilegia et incantationes...si fecerit privetur de collegio," which
is remarkable for that time.

147 Bernardi (S.) Liber de Contemptu Mimdi et Appetitu super coelestium

Bonorum versibus hexametris conscriptus — Prudentii vel Amceni
Liber Evae Columbae (Diptychon sive Tituli Historiarum Veteris et
Novi Testamenti) — Theobald I Episcopi Phisiologus de Naturis
duodecim Animalium — Floretus in quo Flores omnium Virtutum
et Detestationes Vitiorum metrice continentur — Prudentii Psycho-
machia cum Glossis et Prosemio — Bonvicini de Ripa Vita Scholas-
tica metrice descripta
green morocco folio (76 leaves). Sjec. xiii. on vellum

The Poems contained in this manuscript are accompanied with curious glosses,
several of which, interlineary, are in old Italian ; but a more interesting
fact is that some leaves of this volume (for instance, leaves 62 and 65,) are
palimpsest, and still show the vestiges of the old handwriting. The Poem
" de Contemptu Mundi" was printed at Leipzig in 1493, and by Braun,
Panzer, Hain, and other Bibliographers, is attributed to St. Bernard.
Fabricius, however {Bib. Lat. vol. II. p. 254), assigns the authorship to
Bernardus Morlanensis, a Benedictine Monk of Cluny, who lived about
the year of Christ, 1140. This manuscript would afford valuable various
readings. Respecting the Liber Evse, see also No. 14 in the present Cata-
logue. The Phisiologus of Bishop Theobald concludes in this manuscript
with the lines :

Carmine finito sit laus et gloria Christo

Cui si non aliis placeant hsec metra Thebaldi.

A curious fact, as these same lines are stated by Fabricius {Bibl. Lat.
vol. II. p. 251) to have been found at the end of a manuscript of the Liber
Faceti, which on their authority he attributes to Theobald. The Floretus
was also attributed to St. Bernard, and published with his name. In
the Catalogus MSS. Bibl. Reg. Paris, (vol. IV. p. 458), however, it is
attributed to Pope St. Clement. Of Bonvicinus de Bipa Fabricius {Bibl.
Lat. Med. vol. I. p. 264) observes, " In Bibliotheca Riccardiana superest
auctoris hujus Liber Vital Scholastics. Vide ejus Catalog, p. 80." As
Tiraboschi, who speaks of his Cronaca di Milano and his Poesie Italiane,
does not mention this Vita Scholastica, it is clear that he was unacquainted
with it. Argelati {Bibl. Script. Mediol. vol. II. p. 1228), mentions as
" Opus metricum pluribus prosis interjectis," a Treatise de Discipulorum
Proeceptorumque Moribus, a different work, as this is entirely in verse.

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36 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

148 Bernardi (8.) Homilise IV super Missam, Sermo in Dedicatione Templi

et Epistola ad Parentes 4fo. Sjec. xiv. on yellum

Written in a fine small hand by an Italian Scribe. This Manuscript formerly-
belonged to the famous Apostolo Zeno, and has his book-plate and a
list of the contents in his handwriting.

149 Bernardi (S.) Liber de Consideratione ad Eugenium Papam —

Richardi de Sancto Victore de Statu Interioris Hominis — Liber
ejusdem de Exterminatione Mali et Promotione Boni

folio. S^ec. xiv. on yellum

A very fine manuscript, written in double columns, and consisting of several
hundred pages. Manuscripts of the De Exterminatione Mali, &c, are very
scarce ; two only are mentioned in the " Catalogus MSS. Biblio. Regise
Parisiensis."

150 Bernardi (S.) Tractatus de Planctu Virginis et alia Opuscula —

Attgustinus (S.) de vera Innocentia 8vo. Sjec. xv. on yellum

Apparently written by an English Scribe. At the end there are some curious
old drawings of ships, animals, &c, with some sentences in English.
This volume belonged to Matthew Bradford in 1701.

151 Bernardi (S.) Sermo de Dolore Virginis Marise in Passione sui filii

Domini nostri Jesu Christi et Oontemplationes de Passione — Isaac
de Siria Abbatis Sermones — Eefrem Monachi Sermones de Exer-
citatione et Vita Monastica — Excerpta ex SS. Patribus varia —
Senec^e (Lucii Annei) Liber de honesta Vita, etc.

8vO. S^c. xv. ON PAPER

Fabricius (Bibl. Lat. Med. vol. V. p. 38,) tells us that this supposititious work
of Seneca was really written by Martinus Abbas Dumiensis, afterwards
Archbishop of Braccara, who flourished about a.d. 560.

152 Bernardi (S.) Speculum Monachorum 8vo. Sjec. xv. on paper

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SECOND DAY'S SALE.

LOT

153 Berne ggeri (Matthsei) Notationum Partes tres, quibus Proportionum

Instrumenti Fabrica et Usus explicantur 4to. Sjec. xviii. on paper

Although without the name of the author, this is the original manuscript, with
many autograph alterations and corrections of the instructions added by
Bernegger to his translation, printed Argentorati, 1635, in 4to., of the
work of his friend the great Galileo : he Operazioni del Compasso Geome-
trico, etc. This work of Bernegger was afterwards translated into Italian,
and printed amongst the Opere di Galileo.

154 Bertapali^:, Doctoris medicinarum eximii atque fulgidi omni quidem

virtute prsestantissimi, super Cirugiam (Chirurgiam) Praticha —
Tractattjs Ocultorum — Problemata Magistris Mafei de Laude
super Cyrugia Avicennge
in the original binding, with brass corners, on which are in raised letters
"Maria," and " Aye sancte Domine Jesus Christus," with the
rose, and centres with the lamb bearing the cross, surrounded by the
I. U.S. folio. Smc. xv. (1473) on paper

A very remarkable manuscript, consisting of 160 leaves, having the first page
within a richly illuminated border, and the capitals in gold and colours.
At the conclusion is the colophon of the Scribe, stating that it was written
at Rome in 1473, by " Magister Marioctus Ser Pauli de Gallesio." After
this follow seven pages filled with ancient Medical Recipes for the Plague,
&c. in Italian, some of them (certainly written before the discovery of
America) alluding to a disease similar to the " Morbus Gallicus." After
this follow several leaves written in Italian about the same date, and con-
taining curious medical and chemical secrets, which show that opium,
with the same name, was employed by Italian physicians several centuries
ago. From the silence of Tiraboschi and Mazzuchelli on the subject, this
work of Bertapaglia, of whom both speak highly, we are entitled to believe
is not only unpublished, but also quite unknown.

155 Bessel (F. W.) on Lunar Distances, translated from the original Ger-

man, published in Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. X, No. 218

folio. Smc. xix. ON" PAPER

156 Bevilacqui (R. P. Bonaventura) " Cappuccino" Prediche

2 vol. Svo. Sjec. xvii. on paper

An autograph Manuscript of the learned Father, afterwards " Sono di me Donna
Dianira Giustina Devilacqui in S. Vitale Agricola." The work is probably
unpublished, as it is not mentioned by Mazzuchelli.

157 Bhagavat-Gita, with the Hitqpadesa, or the Incarnation of

Wisdom, a richly illuminated Manuscript, in Sanscrit,
45 eeet 7 inches long, and 4-§- inches wide, bordered with
gold and arabesque blazon, and illustrated with 47 minia-
TURE representations of Ganesha, and of the Avatars or
Incarnations of Vishnu. (Mounted on rollers, and enclosed in a
glazed mahogany case) S^:c. xvii. on silk paper (charta bombycina)

This true gem is one of the finest specimens in existence of Orieutal art at its
highest period of prosperity, not only on account of the fineness and rich-
ness of the illuminations and ornaments, but also on account of the cali-

38 THE LIBBI MANUSCRIPTS.

graphy, the text being written in the most minute and beautiful Sanscrit
characters. The Bhagavat-gita is an episode of the great Hindu poem,
the Mahabharata, in which, under the form of a discourse, the god Krishna
explains to his pupil Arjurea, in the midst of an undecided battle, the
philosophico-mythological system of the Brahmins. W. Schlegel calls it
" the most beautiful philosophical poem that the lohole range of literature has
produced ; " and another eminent judge, Mr. Milman, adds, " that it reads
like a noble fragment of Empedocles or Lucretius, introduced into the midst of
an Homeric epic.'''' The Ritopadesa is the original Sanscrit work from
which the celebrated Fables, so anciently introduced among us under the
names of Pilpay or Bidpay, or under the title of Callla wa Dimna, were
taken. The history of this work, written in prose mixed with verse, and
of its translation, has exercised the skill of the most celebrated Orientalists,
amongst whom it is enough to mention Baron S. de Sacy. (See Extraits
et Notices des Manuscrits de la Bibliotheque du Roi, vol. X.)

153 Biaz (a Turkish Miscellany), Oriental binding 4tto. Sjec. xviii. on paper

This interesting manuscript contains a work on the Motions of the Sun and
Stars, with Persian, Arabic and Turkish Almanacs, having curious astro-
nomical and astrological tables. It contains also a chronology of the
Turkish Sultans, elegant prose and poetical extracts, charms, &c, in various
languages, Turkish, Arabic and Persian.

159 Biaz (a Persian Miscellany) — containing a Geographical and
Historical Account of India — Btjbakare, or Notes of a Case
in Law, tried by Mr. Courtney Smith, Judge, E. I. C. S., dated 13th
Eeby. 1S27 — Law Memorandum, extracted from a Mohammedan
Law Book — Talismans and Mohammedan Prayers, or Charms —
Recipes for various Diseases — Ni'mat Khan 'Ali, Account of the
Siege of Bijapur, in Hyderabad, (written in the reign of
Aurangzib, by JSTi'mat Khan 'AH, one of the Emperor's equeries,
who was a fluent Persian poet and celebrated prose writer ; a man of
extraordinary genius and brilliant accomplishments) — Htjsn u 'Ishk
(Beauty and Love) Love Tales, by the same author — Treaties be-
tween the H. E. I. Co. and H. E. the Nawab "Wazir Sa'adat 'AH
Khan of Oude, from 1798 to 1801 — Births and Deaths of the
Kings of Delhi (collected from historical works, &c. by the writer
and owner of this Common-place Book) — Humorous Letter, sup-
posed to be from Ni'mat Khan 'AH — Address of the Gov. G-en. of
India (Lord Bentinck), with names of his council — Geography of
the whole World (fabulous) — Chronological Notes (also fabulous)
— Recipes for various Diseases — Arabic Names of the Twelve
Months
calf gilt Svo. Sjec. xix. on paper

An interesting collection, written in the Shihast amez (Persian flowing hand),
which few except natives of the East can write or even read fluently.

16D Biblia Sacra Latina 2 vols. imp. folio. S^c, xi-xii. on vellum

A magnificent specimen of early caligraphy, with exquisite
illuminations, but unfortunately imperfect, as it commences with the
fourth verse of Isaiah. The Psalms are of the version of St. Jerome, and
not the Vulgate, a very unusual occurrence in early manuscripts. The
Paralipomena (Chronicles) in this manuscript follow Daniel. After the
Apocalypse is the psalm "Pusillus eram," which, occurring neither in the
Hebrew nor the Septuagint, was often omitted, followed by " Oratio devota
de Sancto Sacramento quando Sacerdos se preparet ad missam." It is
apparent that at some period these splendid volumes belonged to the
Monastery of Justemont, near Metz, as there is at the end a long and ancient
inscription of Philip the Abbot (who is not in the list of the Abbots of that
Monastery given in the Gallia Christiana, vol. XIII. p. 948), recounting
that the lamp in the church was to be kept, "usque in eternum," with

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 39

oil at the expense of " Arnulphus Propositus," perhaps the Arnulfus or
Ernulfus of Beauvais, a friend of S. Anselm, who became afterwards Bishop
of Rochester, a munificent patron of literature and art. The illuminations
in gold and colours contained in the capital letters (from 6 to 8 inches in
length and upwards) at the beginning of the Psalter, of the Proverbia, of
the different Gospels, &c. are in the finest style of the art of that period,
and deserve the attention both of the artist and the antiquary for the manner
in which biblical subjects are introduced in those paintings. The Canones
also are very firfely coloured. The numerous numerical figures are written
according to the ancient Roman alphabetical system. Although imperfect
this biblical manuscript is still, even in its present state, one of the finest
and richest specimens of writing of the kind which has come down to us
from our remote ancestors. The illuminations are quite in the style of those
which are in the beautiful Bible formerly at St. Mary's and St. Nicholas,
at Arnstein in Bavaria, now one of the principal ornaments of the British
Museum; but in our Bible the characters are finer and of a more ancient
shape, the ink is also blacker and more brilliant than in the Arnstein Bible.
(See facsimile.)

161 Biblia Sacka Latlna cum Prologis B. Hieronymi et Interpretatione

Nominum Hebraicorum 4<to. S^;c. xiii. on yellum

Beautifully written in a minute character, on vellum of the purest quality, in
double columns, with the capitals illuminated in gold and colours. The
initial letter to Genesis is a curious and uncommon specimen of early art,
exhibiting in the capital I no less than eight representations of Christ, con-
cluding, with the Crucifixion, below which is a death's head. Several of
the other capitals contain miniatures of Saints. This manuscript formerly
belonged to the Austin Friars, and is headed with the following inscription:
" Biblia prcesens est Monasterii Diva Maria de Populo Roma Sac. Ordinis
Fratrum Heremitarum Divi Augustini." Concerning other portions of the
Bible, see also Nos. 354-58, 540, 770, 841-44, 988, &c. in the present
Catalogue.

162 Biblicjb et vocum Scripturae explicationes

in the original oak cover 4<to. S^c. xiv. on yellum

Prefixed are four leaves of Liturgy, written in the eleventh century, beginning
with Benedictio Cerei, and containing " Benedictio ignis novi," &c. These
leaves are chiefly remarkable as being palimpsest, and showing still some
small uncial letter erased and almost entirely defaced.

163 Boccaccio (Giovanni) il Corbaccio

4<to. Sjec. xv. (1467) on yellum and paper mixed

With the name of the Scribe and date : " Completum Corbatium istud per
Joannem Franciscum de Braida Die vigesimo quarto mensis Decembris
MCCCCLXVII." The text contained in this finely written manuscript is
very pure, and may be used to improve even the last Florentine edition
(1827) of the Opere volgari di Giovanni Boccaccio, as is shown by com-
paring the last sentence of the work :

Manuscript. Edition.

" Che tu saresti la male ricevuta, ch' ' ' Che tu saresti la mal cicevuta ed ella

ella e da pungiere con piu acuto stimolo e da pugnere con piu acerbo stimolo che

che tu non porti con teco. II quale con- tu non porti teco : il quale, concedendolo

cedendolo colui el quale d'ogni gratia colui che d'ogni grazia e donatore, tosto

6 donatore tosto a pungerla non temendo a pugnerla, non temendo, le si faccia

li se fara incontro." incontra."

This licentious work, which is considered as perhaps the most purely
written of the whole of the works of Boccaccio, is very rarely found in
manuscript, not a single copy of it being quoted by Marsand in his Mano-
scritti Italiani.

164 Boccaccio (Gr.) il Corbaccio Svo. Smc. xv. on paper

A very good manuscript. The text is pure, and generally agrees with the pre-
vious one, for instance, in the La mal ricevuta and si fara incontro.

40 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

165 Boccaccio (G-.) Libro de Fiametta

in the original binding 4<to. Smc. xv. on paper

Of all the works of Boccaccio, which are seldom ever to be found in manuscript,
the Fiametta is perhaps the scarcest, as we learn from the large catalogue of
Bandini that only five manuscripts of this Work (three of which are imper-
fect), are in the great Medicean Library of Florence, and according to
Marsand in the whole of the public libraries of Paris there is only a single
manuscript of the Fiametta to be found. The present Manuscript is
quite perfect, and is divided into nine chapters like the whole of the best
and oldest copies ; the division into seven books or chapters having been
introduced more recently by some comparatively modern editors.

166 Boccaccio (Gr.) Teseida, Poema

in old ornamented binding folio. S^:c. xv. ON paper

Written in a very neat and distinct round hand by an Italian scribe, and accom-
panied by a Commentary in a handwriting of the same period. The large
initials of each book are painted in gold and colours, with a hare illuminated
on the first leaf, and an ape at the end of the poem. This very important
Manuscript of the most celebrated of Boccaccio's poems, would afford
interesting various readings to a new editor, as it certainly has never been
collated. In corroboration of this we transcribe from this manuscript only
two verses of the final Sonetto, compared with the Florentine edition
(volume IX of the Opere Volgari di G. Boccaccio.)

Manuscript. Edition.

Nomar lor piacque, e noi con note agute " Da Teseo li nomo : noi con argute
Darenli in ogni etacle fama immensa." Note daremlorfamaovunqueimmensa."

The stanzas 44 and 47 of the eighth canto, which are often wanting, are both
in this manuscript,

167 Boccaccio (Gr.) Nimphale d'Ameto

in the original binding folio. S^;c. xv. on paper

Written in a very large Italian hand, with the first capital in colours. The name
of the owner and probably scribe is on the last page, " Hie Liber est mei
Xpofori de Almericis de Pesavro." Manuscripts of this work, supposed
to be the oldest pastoral poem in modern literature, are of extremely rare
occurrence, not one being mentioned by Marsand amongst the Manoscritti
Italianij no more than four being in the great Medicean Library at
Florence ; and two only (one imperfect) being described in the excellent
Catalogue, compiled by M. Palermo, of the splendid library of the <*rand
Duke of Tuscany. The text of our manuscript is very pure, and affords
interesting various readings. It was undoubtedly written by a very learned
scribe, a Tuscan, and is quite free from Lombardisms. At the beginning
the owner has written in a contemporary hand these two verses which
remind us of the similar curious recommendation contained in the well-
known book-plate of Garrick :

" 0 tu che col mio libro ti trastulli
Rendimel presto e guardal da' fanciulli."

168 Bocchatii de Certhaldo (Johannis de) de Mulieribus claris Liber

4it0. SMC. XV. ON PAPER

This Manuscript is unfortunately imperfect, wanting the first ten leaves, but has
the life of Pope Joan. At the end is another work by the same author,
entitled, " Commemoratio summaria Gestorum Romanorum." This last
work of Boccaccio is almost unknown, and the manuscripts of it are exceed-
ingly scarce, not a single one being in the great Medicean Library, nor in
the Regia Parisiensis.

169 Bocatius (J.) de Montibus, Silvis, Fontibus, Lacubus, Fluminibus,

Stagnis et de Nominibus Maris, calf gilt 4ito. Sjec. xv. on paper

Manuscripts of this important geographical work, by Boccaccio, are also very
scarce : not a single one is mentioned in the great " Catalogus Bibliotheca?
Regiae Parisiensis."

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 41

170 Boccalunt (Traiano) Comentarii sopra gY Annali di Cornelio Tacito,

2 vol. vellum, from Lord Guilford? s collection

folio. S./EC. xvii-xviii. ON paper

A work replete with curious anecdotes taken from modern history.

171 Boccallnt (Traiano) Consideration! sopra la Vita di Griulio Agricola

scritta da Caio Cornelio Tacito 4<to. Smc. xvii-xviii. on paper

172 Boeri Gorretta (Giacopo) Catone ridotto in ottava Bima et in quattro

Canti distinto ; con la prima delle Epistole Morali d'Oratio e la
prima delle Heroidi d'Ovidio, con duo Sonetti

folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

Unpublished poems by Boeri-Gorretta, author of " I Diavoli delle Donne Poemetto
in Ottava Rima," printed at Vicenza in 1598. The Manuscript is un-
doubtedly the original presented to his patron, Giovcm Battista Doria
Marchese di S. Stefano e Baron de Ginoso, as it is beautifully written with
illuminated capitals, and the initials to each stanza in letters of gold. The
title page and heading to the Dedication, as well as all passages naming the
Doria Family, are also ornamented with golden letters.

173 Bcerneri (Christiani Friderici, " Iter ad illustrissimas Belgii et Anglise

Universitates suscipientis ") Album Amicorum
old red morocco, gilt edges oblong 8vo. S^:c. xviii. (1705-6) on paper

Containing the autographs of many distinguished foreign and English scholars,
including: Frederick Augustus Duke of Saxony; Dr. Richard Bentley ;
H. Sike, Professor of Hebrew, at Cambridge; J. E. Grabe (Editor of the
JSeptuagintJ ; J. Gagnier, (the eminent Orientalist) j J. Davies (Editor of
Cicero); J. Wasse (Editor of Sallust); W. Lloyd, (Bp. of Worcester);
G. Olearius (Editor of Philostratus) ; J. A. Fabricius, (the learned Biblo-
grapher) j James Gronovius; G. G. Leibnitz; H. Von der Hardt;
J. Fabricius; J. A. Schmidt, &c. &c. The autograph of the celebrated
Leibnitz is remarkable for the sentence he has written, and which no doubt
was his own device, "Pars vitee, quoties perditur hora, perit."

174 Boethii (Anicii Manlii Torquati Severini) Qusestiones Philosophical

cum Commentariis doctrissimis Gilberti Porretani Episcopi Picta-
viensis 4ito. S^ec. xii. on vellum

A fine Manuscript, which contains the Treatises " de Trinitate ; Utrum tres Per-
sonam de Divinitate substantialiter prsedicentur ; Quomodo substantia? bona?
sint," entire, and the Work "de Persona et Natura contra Eutychen et
Nestorium," slightly imperfect at the end. These works will be found edited
at the end of the Variorum Edition (Lugd.-Batav. 1671, in 8vo.) of Boethius
de Consolatione, omitting however the Commentary. For a new Edition
this ancient manuscript would supply some excellent readings. As a sample
take this passage at the commencement of Chapter VII. of the Treatise
"de Persona et Natura " :

Manuscript. Edition.

" Duplex quidem modus est qui unum " Ex utrisque naturis aliquid consistere

ex duobus consistere significat : Unus " duo significat : Unum "

This text of Boethius contains many Greek quotations, which are all here,
a very rare occurrence, written in Greek capitals by the scribe, who very
probably copied them from a much older manuscript. The Commentary
of Bishop Gilbertus Porretanus affords, besides various readings, an entire
Introduction, filling two pages and a half of this valuable Manuscript
which is probably inedited, as it was not printed in the folio edition of
Boethii Opera, published at Basle in 1570. (See facsimile.)

175 Boethius (A. M. T. S.) de Consolatione Philosophia? cum Commentario

in the original binding 4>to. Sjec. xiii. on vellum

An interesting Manuscript with several curious astronomical drawings, some in
colours, with Arabic numerical figures. The Commentary, written in the

42 THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS.

most minute hand, is an immense work. The initials are in various colours;
the first page has been written again. At the end there is an inscription
showing that this manuscript formerly belonged to Thomas de Inghiramis,
a celebrated man, who at the beginning of the XVIth century was Librarian
of the Vatican.

176 Boecii (A. M. T. S.) de Consolatione Notabilia. — Excerpta ex Libro

Dionysii de Angelica Hierarchia, Ecclesiastica Hierarchia, De
Dominicis Nominibus Mo. Sjec. xiv. on vellum

177 Eoethius (A. M. T. S.) de Consolatione Philosophise cum Commentario

perpetuo folio. S^:c. xv. on papeb,

Written on stout paper, with the capitals illuminated in gold and colours. As a
sample of the various readings exhibited by this manuscript we select
Lib. Ill, Metrum VIII, as given by Leyser:

Manuscript. Leyser.

1. Heu quern Miseros Eheu quam miseros

5. Non altis laqueos. Non altis aqueos.

The Commentary is different from that which was printed under the name
of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

178 Boethitjs (A. M. T. S.) de Disciplina Scolarium, cum Commentario et

Grlossis folio. S^c. xv. on papep.

This curious work is not by Boethius, but the true author is not ascertained.
Some attribute it to the celebrated schoolman John Scott.

179 Bologna. Constitutions almi Collegii Dominorum Doctorum Juris

Canonici et Juris Civilis Civitatis Bononise, cum Rubricis

\2mo. Smc. xv. on yelltjm

Written on very pure Italian vellum, with a miniature painting at the com-
mencement and the initial letter to each constitutio, richly illuminated in
gold and colours in a peculiar style. The first page contains a curious
illumination surrounded by a border, having the arms of its first owner in
the bottom compartment. The volume is in two parts, the first contains
the Statuta Juris Canonici, which were compiled under the direction of
Johannes de Fantuciis, prior of the Collegium ; the second contains the
Statuta Juris Civilis. This manuscript, so important for the History of the
University of Bologna, remained quite unknown to Sarti and Fantuzzi, the
latter of whom, in his Notizie (Vol. III. p. 292,) has a long article on this
Giovanni Fantuzzi, who died in 1391.

180 Bologna. Libro di tutti li Condanati a Morte in Bologna principiando

l'Anno 1540, sino al 1744, con li Nomi e Cognomi di tutti li Eminen-
tissimi Cardinali che sonno stati in Groverno in detta Citta princi-
piando in detto Anno 1540, e tutti li Norni e Cognomi de Signori
Periori (Priori) pro Tempore della Compania della Morte

4tto. Smc. xviii. on papek,

A most curious document, containing a list of men and women, " tutti li
giusticiati" detailing the crimes for which they were executed, by hanging,
decapitation, or burning alive. Among the sufferers appear the names of
celebrated banditti and murderers, instances of executions for heresy,
sacrilege, forging, incendiarism, coining, rape, unnatural crime (abbruggiato
vivo), stealing nuns, sorcery, witchcraft, &c. &c. As a sample of this
valuable and interesting record we extract the following :

1543. " Giacomo Samon Sacerdote fu degradato e poi appiccato per stregherie
con abbuso sacramentorum." — 1552. " Maria N. da Vernia fa appiccata per gravis-
simi deliti che per degni rispetti si tacciono, essendo enormissimi." — 1556. " Michelle
Senese Bolognese detto per sopranome il Cavaglier Sermoneta fu appiccato per
haver sacrilegamente gettato una Sassata ad un Imagine d'un Christo mentre
Giocava e fu poi abbruggiatto in Mezzo la Piazza." — 1559. " Vincenzo Fachini and
four Women for Sorcery." — 1567. " Bernardino Bresaglia Modonese, Baldisera
N. Pitor Vencziano Martino Forni Ferrarese Abbruggiatti vivi per Luterani ,■" a

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 43

course apparently followed in the same and subsequent years as there are several
names with burnt as Lutheran without any other crime being named.
Among these victims is the name of Pietro Antonio Pittor Bolognese. — 1579. The
Marquis della Nave, his two brothers and son, were hanged for " diversi Omicidii et
enormissimi falli." — 1579. " Giacomo Catani Nobile Bolognese fu appiccato e poi
abbruggiattoper Eretico." — 1581. "Aurelio Tanara Conte e Cavagliere Bolognese fu
appiccato per Luterano." — 1582. B. Bucchi and five others hanged for inciting
the People to revolt. — 1585. Antonio Salumaro and seven companions hanged for
" diversi misfatti che per degni respetti si tacciono." — 1587. " Ippolita Moglie del
T. Girolamo Passarotti, Ludovico Landinello detto il Specialino e G. A. N. dal
Tole suo Servitore" beheaded for poisoning her husband, with two curious Italian
Sonnets respecting the event. — 1593. " Ottavio Bargelini Nobile Bolognese fu
decapitato per Sod. . . " and Paolo Orsino, a Jew, hanged for the same crime, with
a curious account of his being publicly baptized previously, &c, &c."

At the end are added a very curious pamphlet, printed in small 4to. at
Bologna, entitled "Relazione della Giustizia in Bologna, 20 Giugno 1744,
nella Persona di G. Menghi per Fasto Sacrilego," and a printed broadside
calling the people in the most cool and indifferent way to witness the exe-
cution of a criminal, " Questa mattina s' Impicca Francesco figlio di
Guiseppe Borghi di Castel Bolognese per due Omicidi. Questo di 10 De-
cembre 1777-" A fact worthy of attention to illustrate the laws of the
country is, that during a great portion of the sixteenth century we see from
this manuscript that the capital punishments at Bologna were so numerous,
that in the year 1585 they amounted to 51, and in 1586 to 34; while in the
last century they were reduced to one or two only each year.

181 Bofaventurje (S.) Itinerarium Mentis in Deum

8V0. SJEC. xiv. OF YELLUM

182 Bona venture (S.) Liber de Regimine Conscientise — Optjscultjm

extractum de Libro II. S. Thomse — Passio Sanctarum Yirginum
Euphemia3, Dorothea?, TheclaB et Erasmse — Homelike Ven. Beda3
Presbyteri et B. Grregorii Papa? — Lentuli Epistola de Jesu Christo
— Epistola B. Ignatii ad B. Virginem Mariam cum ejusdem res-
ponsoria 8vo. Smc. xv. on vellum

A very interesting volume, in a fine Italian hand. The celebrated letter of Len-
tulus, describing the personal appearance of our Saviour, has been the
subject of much controversy. On the title page there is a defaced stamp.

183 Bonayentura (S.) Dialogo tra 1'Anima e l'Homo — Brandani (B.

"Monachi et Confessoris ") Orationes super Pater noster, Ave
Maria, Credo 4ito. SiEC. xv. ok paper

An interesting Manuscript for the old Italian language, as it presents a transla-
tion unknown to Argelati, and in all probability unpublished. The Ora-
tions of St. Brandan, an Irish Saint, are not mentioned by Fabricius, or
in the " Biographie Universelle," and seem totally unknown.

184 Boket (Honoure, "Priour de Salon") Le livre de larbre des Batailles

en quatre parties — Le liyre nomme lordre de Cbevalerie
" veau fauve " folio, Smc. xv. on velltjm

The " Arbre des Batailles " treats in the first part of Battles and their Origin, and
of the Tribulations of the Church ; in the second of the Fall of the four
great Empires, and of the Foundation of Rome, and its government as a
kingdom, republic and empire, with an account of the Wars of the Romans
against the Carthaginians, Gauls and Germans ; and in the third and fourth
of the Rules to be observed in single Combats and Battles, &c. The fourth
part is highly interesting and contains much to interest the English Col-
lector, for instance, amongst other doubts resolved are the following : " Se
par la guerre qui est entre les roys les francois pouvroient devement aprisoner
les poures anglois et prendre leurs biens ; Se le roy dangleterre et le roy
despaigne sont subgiez alempereur; Se un estudiant angloiz demourant
a paris pour estudier peult estre aprisonne par voie de quelconque guerre ;

44 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

Se un angloiz vient veoir son filz malade estudiant a paris sil peust estre
aprisonne; Se un evesque dengleterre pouvroit estre aprisonne par un
francois devement ; Se francoiz peuent saisir chevaulx louez par les anglois
aux ambassadeurs descoce;" &c. &c. The chapters respecting "Champ
Cloux " are of the highest importance for illustrating the. Romances of
Chivalry, and the Manners and Customs of France during the Reign
of Charles V. By comparing only the rubrics which we have quoted from
this manuscript, with the corresponding rubrics printed in the gothic
edition of the Arbre des Batailles (Paris, 1493, in folio), it will appear
how greatly the present manuscript differs from the edition; thus, to take
a single instance, in the printed book there is no mention at all of the
Roy d'Espaigne in the rubric ; " Se le Roy d'Angleterre et le Roy d'Espaigne
sont subjeez alempereur." The language also is much older and more
genuine in the manuscript than in the edition. Concerning the author of
this work called in this manuscript Bonet or Bovet, but generally knovn
under the name of Bonnor, see the XVIIIth volume of the Memoires de
VAcad. des Inscriptions, (p. 368) and P. Paris, Manuscrits, vol. VI, p. 249.
The second work in the volume is that of "L'Ordre de Chevalerie " and
treats of the Nobility of Chivalrv, the manner of creating Knights, and the
various Ceremonies and Rules of the Orders of Knighthood, This is a
prose work, and must not be confounded with the well known " Ordene de
Chevalerie," a poem, which is ascribed to Hues de Tabarie.

185 Botanica. A Treatise on Plants in Italian 4to. SiEC. xviii. on papee

186 Bouchet (Arnaud) "Arpenteur jure des Eaux et Forets," Traits de

Geometrie pratique et de Stereometrie
with drawings 4ito. Sjec. xviii. (1746), on paper

With the original signature of the author at the end. The whole volume is
probably in his autograph.

187 Bradley (Dr. James) Twenty Lectures on Mathematical Subjects at

Oxford in 1747 4>to. 1747, on paper

These lectures of one of the most celebrated English astronomers do not
appear to have been printed.

188 Brand ano (B. " detto volgarmente il Pazzo di Giesu Christo ") Sua

Vita, Profezie, Miracoli e Morte. Cavata dall' Archivio della Bic-
chierna di Siena 4tto. Sjsc. xvii. on paper

This Saint, born at Petroio, near Siena, in 1483, must not be confounded with
the Irish St. Brandan, who lived in the fifth century. His prophecies are
in rhyme, of which that relating to England may serve as a specimen :

" V Inghilterra quasi semper stara in guerra
Fin che at vero Dio non bacciara la terra?

Nothing is more curious than this biographical account of a Saint who was
condemned to hard labour, and who foretold the last Siege of Siena in the
sixteenth century.

189 Brandizzo (Conte di) Kelazione di ogni Citta e Terra posta nella

Provincia di Cuneo da lui ammiuistrata in qualita d'Intendente
negli Anni 1750, 1751 e 1752 2 vol. in 1, folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

An original manuscript, which is not quoted by the bibliographers whom we
have perused : it has the signature of the author in various places. This
voluminous work contains a very minute statistical and historical descrip-
tion of the province of Cuneo, one of the most important of Piedmont.

190 Brechte (Steffan) Rechenbuch Uo. S^c. xvi. (1551), on yellum

Neither this Arithmetician, nor his Treatise on Arithmetic, are mentioned in
the admirable work, Books of Arithmetic, by Professor De Morgan, which
is a sufficient proof of the rarity of this treatise. There is a wood-cut
frontispiece illuminated.

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191 Beeviaeium Eratrum Heremitarum Ordinis Sancti Augustini secundum

Consuetudiuem Curia3 Romanse, cum Calendario, Psalterio et Officio

MisS83 SVO. SiEC. XV. ON YELLTJM

This very elegant manuscript is written in a clear small hand, upon 378 leaves of
the purest vellum, having the rubrics in red ink. Several of the capitals are
painted in gold and colours, three of them containing miniature portraits,
executed probably by a Milanese artist. At the end is inserted the office of
the Mass, thus rendering it a complete missal as well as breviary. It con-
cludes with the hymn " Dies Ira dies ilia solvet seclum infavilla teste David
et Sibilla," David occurring instead of the modern reading " Petro." At
the beginning there is the following note written during the fifteenth
century : " S. Marise Coronatoe Mediolani ad usum fratris Victoris de
Milano."

192 Beeviaeium Monasticum secundum Consuetudinem Monachorum

Congregationis de Observantia Sanctse Justinse de Padua

12mO. S^EC. XV. ON YELLUM

This manuscript, written upon several hundred leaves of the purest vellum, with
illuminated borders and capitals, contains also the Psalter, the Communion-
Service, and propria Sanctorum. At the end of the first part there is the
following colophon : " Iste breviarium est monasterii Sci Sixti placentie, con-
gregationis Sancte Iustine de Padua, ordinis Sancti Benedicti." At the
beginning there are several leaves, containing astronomical tables, very
neatly written, with the drawing of an instrument for finding literam domini-
calem, pascham, &c. &c.

193 Beioitt^e (S.) Regula Salvatoris data divinitus ab Ore Christi devotis-

sima3 SponssB suae Brigittae 4<to. Sjec. xvi. on vellum

A fine specimen of Italian Caligraphy with the initial letters painted in gold on
the purest vellum. This work contains the celebrated Revelationes Sanctce
Brigittae, commencing In dominio Regis Norwegiae, Sfc.

194 Beomeield (Philip) Geometry, Trigonometry, Geographical and Nau-

tical Problems, &c. with the Log of H.M.S. Salisbury (Rear Admiral
J. Eliot) E. Gower, Commander, during her Passage from Newfound-
land to England, 1788, and a Description of various Ports

4>to. Smc. xviii. on papee

An autograph manuscript of Philip Bromfield, Junior of Lymington, who appears
to have had command of the lower deck. There is also some practical
information relating to the navigation of the Mediterranean, &c.

195 Beotiee (Le Pere Gabriel, Jesuite) Agrippa et Mecene ou des Gou-

vernemens Democratique et Monarchique 4fo. S^ec. xviii. on papee

In the autograph of the celebrated Editor of Tacitus.

196 Beotiee (Le Pere G.) sur les Hieroglyphes 4<to. Smc. xviii. on papee

In the autograph of this eminent Scholar.

197 Btjeley (Gualterii, Anglici) de Vita et Moribus Philosophorum

Tractatus folio, ^mg. xv. on papee

Walter Burley, surnamed the perspicuous Doctor, was born at Oxford in
1275 and died in 1357. He was the Head of the Nominalists, and the chief
adversary of the Scotists. His Lives of the Philosophers was in great
esteem during the XVth century, and ran through several editions. This
fine manuscript unfortunately wants a small portion of the Life of Thales
at the commencement. At the end there is an abridgement of Valerius
Maximus of a later date.

46 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

198 Burley (Walteri de, " Anglici") Tractates de Eormis, Intentionibus,
&c. et de Potenciis Animse " scriptus per Manus Fratris Johannis de
G-elria Alamanni in ProvinciaAnglisB in Villa London, Deo Gratias" — -
Ejusdem Liber Metheorum, in the handwriting of the same monk,
"completus in Die Ignatii," a.d. 1425 — Ejesdem Diversorum diversse
Opiniones de Universalibus, in the same handwriting, dated 1427 —
Eormalitates Reverendi Magistri Johannis Sharp, Ord. Carthus.
unpublished, in the same handwriting

4do. &MC. xv. (1425-27) on paper and yellum

A very interesting collection for the literary history of England, not only as
containing, as we learn from Fabricius, an unpublished work of J. Sharp, a
celebrated English Philosopher and divine of the fourteenth century, but
also as being a collection of works of old English authors, copied in London,
in the fifteenth century, with the date and the name of the transcriber,
which is a very uncommon occurrence.

109 Besinello (Pietro, " Segretario del Senato di Venetia ") Informative
delle Cose de Turchi riguardo alia Religione ed al G-overno Civile,
Ecconomico, Militare e Politico folio. S^sc. xviii. on paper

An autograph manuscript prepared for publication, but which does not seem to
have been printed. This curious work is dedicated to the Doge Pietro
Grimani.

200 Btrom (John) Universal English Short Hand

4fc>. S^ec. xviii. (1768), on paper

Evidently prepared for a new edition, with a preface respecting the perfection of
Mr. Byrom's method; half the volume consists of old white paper.

201 Cjesarii (S.) " Arelatensis Episcopi," OmelisQ (sic) et Sermones XXXV.

— Augtjstini (S.) Liber de Contemptu Mundi ad Clericos et Liber
de Honestate Mulierum small 4to. S^ec. xv. on velltjm

This elegant and very valuable manuscript, which is well written in an Italian
hand, with some nicely ornamented borders, formerly belonged to the
famous library of St. Giustina di Padova. Of the Sermo ad Monachos
(Omelia viiii.) of Csesarius there is a second copy at the end containing various
readings. No doubt this is a copy of a far earlier codex, as it contains thirty-
five out of the forty-six Homilies attributed to the Saint. These are
probably all genuine, whilst among the forty-six are some undoubtedly
spurious, as therein are quoted Gregory the Great, Isidore of Hispala, and
other authors who wrote after the death of Caesarius (in 542). The various
readings of the two copies of the Sermo ad Monachos (as well as those of
the other Sermones) are not without importance. For instance, at the end
of the first copy of the Sermo ad Monachos (which is the ninth of the
Homilise) we read : " Iesu Christo qui cum patre et Spiritu Sancto vivit et
regnat Deus per omnia secula. Amen ;" while in the second copy of the
same Sermo we find the name of the Holy Ghost omitted : " Iesu Christo
qui cum eo vivit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen." It is needless to
expatiate here upon the name of St. Csesarius, one of the most extraordinary
men of his time. His eloquence was so great that in quoting some of his
sermons, M. Guizot, not a bad judge on this subject, (Cours d'Histoire
Moderne XVIelecon) stated, "Certes, Messieurs, quand vous trouveriez
dans le Paradis Perdu un tel passage, vous n'en seriez pas etonnes et ce
discours n'est pas indigne de PEnfer de Milton."

202 Cesaris (Caii Julii) Commentariorem de bello Gallico et Britannico

Libri VII, vellum gilt folio. S^ec. xv. on vellum

A pparently written by an Italian scribe, and probably a Greek scholar, as he
concludes several books with TeAoo- <W (sic). The text exhibited is remark-
ably pure, and would afford the future editor some valuable gleanings in the
shape of varice lectiones. As a sample, the usual reading in book I, chap. I,

THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS. 47

" Qua de causa Helvetii quoque reliquos Gallos virtute praecedunt, quod
fere quotidianis proeliis cum Germanis contendunt," is in this manuscript
" bellis et prceliis cum Germanis tendunt." By collating this manuscript
with the Oudendorp (Valpy's) edition, we find also in the first book,
Manuscript. Edition.

" Eorura una pars quam Gallos obti- " Eorum una pars quam Gallos obtinere

nere dictum est inicium capit a flumine dictum est initium capit a flumine Rho-
Rhodano contineturque Garuna flumine dano ; continetur Garumna flumine, Oceano,
Oceanum fines Belgarum attingit et a finibusBelgarum; attingit etiam abSequanis
Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum etHelvetiisflumen Rhenum ; vergit ad Sep-
vergit ad septentrionem. tentriones.

Spectat ad occasum solis et septentrionem." Spectat inter occasum solis et septentriones."

Good manuscripts of Caesar, which are so important for the ancient history
of France and even of England, are of uncommon occurrence. The present
one is in a fine state of preservation, and contains a great number of ancient
marginal annotations, several in Greek, and various readings from the pen
of learned owners. Amongst the curious variations contained in this
manuscript several relate to England, and are not without interest. For
instance, in the description of Britanny (lib. V. § 13) instead (as in the
Oudendorp edition) of " Hoc latus tenet circiter millia passuum quingenta,"
the manuscript has " Hoc pertinet circiter millia passuum lxx." The
variations of the names mentioned throughout, and especially in chapter
lxxv. of book vii, are important to the geographer.

203 Cje saris (Divi Julii Caii) Rertjm stiarum Commentarti

folio. S^o. XV. ON PAPER

Evidently the transcript from an excellent manuscript affording many variations
in the names, by a Scholar who has occasionally noted the various readings
of another codex on the margins. The following may serve as an example :
" a Belgis Synarna et Sequana dividit," the gloss " aV Matrona" being
written on the margin.

The variations in many of the names deserve notice — for instance : Orgen-
torix for Orgetorix ; Castico Chatamanti Leodisflio for Castico, Cataman-
telidis filio j Heduo for jEduo; Latocubiti for Latobrigi ; Genua for Geneva;
Nammicius et Verudocius for Nameius et Verudoctius j Hedui Ambarri for
Ambarrij &c. &c. ; all however unnoticed among the variaa lectiones given
by Valpy, and therefore proving that this manuscript, or its prototype has
never been collated. In the description of Britannia, instead of " Hoc
pertinet circiter millia passuum Lxx" as in the previous manuscript, we
have in the present one "Hoc pertinet circiter passuum quingentorum" but
still with considerable variation from the Oudendorp edition. Besides the
seven books contained in the previous manuscript, this one contains also the
several other books written by Cassar or attributed to him, as well as those
by Hirtius, &c. These last books are more rare in manuscript than the
seven genuine books De Bello Gallico. We give here the last sentence of
the De Bello Hispanico, taken from this manuscript to show that in every
book there are numerous various readings:

Manuscript. Edition.

" Agros provinciamque vestro impulsu " Agros provinciamque vestro impulsu

depopulatus : In quo vos victores exis- depopulavit. In quo vos victores existi-

timabatis. An me deleto non animad- mabatis? An me deleto non animum ad-

vertebatis decern habere lectas quidem vertebatis, decern habere legiones Popu-

legiones populum Romanum quse non lum Romanum, quge non solum vobis

solum vobis resistere sed etiam coelum obsistere, sed etiam coelum diruere pos-

diruere possent. Quarum laudibus et sent ? quarurn laudibus et virtute "
virtute "

204 Cesar (Jules) Sa Vie et (testes (en FYancoys)

royal folio. SiEC. xv. oisr paper

A very elegant manuscript with the numerous capitals richly illuminated in gold
and colours, and consisting of 219 leaves. The first page is adorned with a
miniature painting representing a warrior in gold armour, having a sword
in his right hand and a scroll in his left, issuing from his tent to meet warriors

48 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

and civil dignitaries, all in the costume of the fifteenth century, and prob-
ably portraits of the time. This page is surrounded by a grotesque border
composed of flowers and animals ; and the arms of Balthasar de Villars (one
of the ancestors of the celebrated Marshal de Villars) are stamped on two
of the leaves. This work is the same which M. Paulin Paris in his
" Manuscrits Francois de la Bibliotheque du Roi," has described (vol. I,
p. 41) from an unpublished manuscript formerly in the celebrated "Biblio-
theque de Louis de Bruges, Seigneur de la Grothuyse." From the quotation
given by M. P. Paris we perceive that the text of our manuscript is much
better than the one he described, as will be seen from the following com-
parison :

Our Manuscript. M. P. Paris's Edition.

" Chascun home se doit pener a qui " Chascun homme a qui Dieu a donue

Dieu donne raison et entendement quil sens et entendement se doit penner et
ne gaste le temps en oysiveteV' aviser qu'il ne gaste le corps ou offense."

Amongst the animals painted in the border surrounding the first leaf of
the work there is a donkey with a lantern surrounded with glasses, and
another donkey (dressed like a monk) playing at dice with a pig. Some of
the dignitaries painted on the first leaf have books in their hands, one being
apparently bound in red velvet with gilt leaves, and another in green velvet
with silvered leaves. We suspect this compilation to have some connexion
with a manuscript work quoted in a remarkable article which, without the
name of its illustrious author, appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes,
(ler Mars, 1858) under the title of Alesia, &tude sur la septieme campagne de
Cesar en Gaule.

205 Calchi (Tristani, " Mediolanensis ") Historic Patriae Libri XI-XX.

4ito. SvEC. xvii. ON PAPER

Beautifully written. From the arms in gold and colours which are at the
beginning, it is evident that this manuscript belonged formerly to the library
of the Dukes of Savoy.

206 Calendrier des Bergiers pour XXVIII Annees (1500-87) en Vers

folio. ^>mc. xvii. ON PAPER

A very curious poem, in old French (totally different from the ancient " Compost
et Calendrier des Bergiers") and ver)' similar to our " Tusser's Points of
Good Husbandry" but of which we can find no mention.

207 Cambridge. Statuta Collegii Christi Cantabrigiae. Accedunt Leges

sive Statuta Cantabrigiensia, calf 4<lo. Smc. xvii. (1637) on paper

Some are in Latin ; and some : " Reports of Meetings" of the sixteenth century,
are in English.

208 Cambridge. Statuta, &c. Collegii S. Johannis Evangelistae, with the

Charters of Queen Elizabeth and Charles I, Account of the Foun-
dations, &c. folio. 8mc. xvii. on paper

At the end are fourteen closely written pages, entitled : "Collegium S. Johannis
- Evangelistae in Academia Catabrigiensi una cum ejusdem Fundatrice et
Benefactoribus, Anno Dom. 1679," followed by seventeen others, con-
taining " Statuta Ecclesise Collegialis Beatse Mariae Virginis de Southwell
in Diocesi Eboracensi et Commitatu Nottinghamiensi."

209 Camilli da Nocera (Pier Antonio, " Maestro Generale de Minori

Conventuali) Ordini da osservarsi ... in tutti i conventi .... della
Provincia di Bologna 4to. Sieq. xvii. on paper

An official document, with signatures and seal.

210 Campanella (Fra Tommaso) Citta. dell' Oriente Sole, cioe Dialogo di

Hepublica. — Centociu quanta Concetti metodici della nniversa Scienza
Politica, vellum folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper

A very curious manuscript by this celebrated Italian philosopher, who died in
1639. Both the works in this volume contain considerable variations from
the text in the excellent edition of the works of Campanella lately under-

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 49

taken by M. D'Ancona at Turin, which however may be accounted for, as
the learned editor complains much of the bad manuscript he had to put up
with. This manuscript, written no doubt during the life of Campanella and
in the second part of which the Latin text is followed by an Italian explanation,
contains either a translation made by Campanella himself of the original
Latin works, or one made under his superintendence by a friend or a pupil.

211 Campanella (Fra Tomaso) Poetica 4to. SiEC. xvii. on paper

Written in a bold Italian hand at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It
is well known that Campanella wrote this work in Latin, and delivered it in
manuscript to Cardinal Aldobrandini, at Rome, and that it was subsequently
translated into Spanish, and published as an original work of the translator.
Afterwards Campanella inserted a work on the same subject, in his first
volume of the Philosophia rationalis, printed at Paris in ](338. This Italian
translation, certainly written during the life of the author, was probably his
own work.

212 Campanus Novariensis ad Urbanum IV. de Erroribus Ptolomaei

morocco folio. S&c. xiv-xv. on paper

This is a scarce and interesting astronomical manuscript, not a single copy of
this work being mentioned in the great " Catalogus Bibliothecae Regiae
Parisiensis," or by Haenel. It was unknown to Lalande as well as to
Fabricius.

213 Campani de Novaria Theorica Planetarum, Scriptum per me Do. Comi-

num de Pontenigo et expletum XXV Julii iVjl — Joiiannis Arch-
angeli Tabulae Astronomicae folio. SiEC. xv. (1477) on paper

Finely written with diagrams, some coloured. The age in which Campanus of
Novarra lived has often been mistated, but Tiraboschi has proved, beyond a
doubt, from a letter addressed to him by Simone Genovese, that this eminent
Mathematician was Chaplain to Pope Urban IV., who was elected to the
Papacy in 1261. According to the best Bibliographers this important work
has never been published. Of " Johannes Archangelus " we can find no trace,
unless this author be the Johannes Angelus, of Aichen in Bavaria, some of
whose works are mentioned by Lalande. In any case both these important
works seem to be unpublished. The numerous numerical figures are
according to the Arabic system, in both works and the tables they contain.

214 Campani, Novariensis, Theorica Planetarum cum Commento

4t0. SiEC. xiv-XV. ON PAPER

This work contains a commentary upon the Theorica Planetarum by the cele-
brated Campanus, as appears from the work itself. The numerical figures
are all written in conformity with the Arabic system.

215 Campani (Johannis Antonii) Oratio in Die Cinerum apud Pium Papam

secundum, a.d. mcccclxii die vero in Martii
half morocco 4<to. SiEC. xv. on tellum

Beautifully written on vellum, the first page within an elegant border, which as
well as the initial C. is richly illuminated in gold and colours. This was
probably the copy presented to Pope Pius II, the celebrated ./Eneas Sylvius.
This Manuscript was formerly in the splendid collection of the Marquis
Maffei at Verona.

216 Candidtts de Genitura Hominis — Palayicini (Baptistse Marchionis)

Historia flendae Crucis et Funeris Jesu Christi Carmine conscripta
ad Beatissimum Papam Eugenium IV. — Philogenia, Comcedia,
Expletum per me Dominum Pliilippum Tiessenum Qlericum Lauden-
sem tertio Nonas Septembris 1484 hora JPrandii — Luciani Dialogus
Carontis et Mercurii Itanutio interprete — ^Ene.e Sylvii, postea
Pii II, Historia de duobus Amantibus et Somnium de Fortuna

4it0. SyEC. XV. ON PAPER

A very curious collection. This work of Peter Candidus, a physician of Milan,

was several times published at Rome and elsewhere during the fifteenth

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50 THE LIBBI MANUSCRIPTS.

century. We do not find any mention of this Palavicini in Tiraboschi.
B. Palavicino is mentioned in the Index of Quadrio, but the reference being
erroneous, as is too often the case in that index, we have been unable to trace
where this name is to be found in the work. Tiraboschi gives an account
of the Philogenia, a celebrated Latin play by Ugolino da Parma, of which
in the fifteenth century Alb. Eyb gave an extract in his Margarita Poetica.
It was one of the first Latin plays composed by a modern writer.

217 Caktica Ecclesiastica pro Dommicis et Festis cum Notis musicis

4/o. Sjec. x-xi. oisr vellum

Finely written. The music in this collection of early chants is written without
staves, in what the French call neumes, one of the most convincing proofs
of its great antiquity (See fac- simile).

218 Capecelatro (D. Francesco, "Maestro di Campo ") Diario de i

Tumulti di Napoli. Parte seconda 4fo. Sjec. xvii. oisr paper

This is an important unpublished work, unknown to Giustiniani and Riccio,
who both speak (Bihl. p. Ill and 124 — Memor. p. 74 and 390) of other
works of Fr. Capecelatro. Soria (Mem. vol. I. p. 336) quotes this work only
from a manuscript. This author, who lived in the XVIIth Century, and
who (as he says himself) " Servendo il suo Re personalmente intervenne
nella maggior parte delle cose," gives an account of these celebrated Tumulti
very different from the common one.

219 Capello (Gio. Batt.) il Re Ormondo Tragedia (in Versi)

8t'o. S^eo. xvii. oisr paper

With autograph corrections of the author throughout. Allacci in his
Drammaturgia mentions another tragedy with a similar title, by Mario
Cevoli of Pisa, printed at Rome in 1650, but none by Capello, whose
work appears to be unpublished.

220 Cappello (Bianca) Compendio della Sua Vita e Morte

4ito. S.EC. xviii. oisr paper

At the end of this work, relating the extraordinary adventures of Bianca Cappello,
(a well-known Venetian lady who fled from her family with her paramour,
and afterwards became Grand-Duchess of Tuscany) there are some notes in
the autograph of the celebrated Apostolo Zeno.

221 Cardohsto (Andrea, " Cavaliero Napoletano nato in Geneura") Rela-

tione di Geneura folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

A very important manuscript (consisting of 48 leaves^ relative to the Affairs of
Geneva, especially after the introduction of Calvinism, concluding with the
words " Hceretica Patria non possidebis ossa mea. A.C." This work, full
of curious and minute information, contains also a biography of Calvinus.
It is in the autograph of the author, prepared for publication, with a
dedication to Philip IV King of Spain.

222 Carlo V. Proposta fatta a Francesco Be di Francia da Monsig.

Ardiughello Nuntio di Papa Paulo III. sopra il Negotio della Pace
con l'lmperator Carlo V, I' Anno 1541 — Proposta fatta dal Cardinale
di Ferrara ai Senato Venetiano in Nome del Be di Francia nell'
Anno 1544, per indurlo alia Lega contra Carlo V — Trattato et
Conclusione della Lega tra Pio V, il Be Catolico et la Signoria di
Venetia composto per Michele Soriano Ambasciatore Veneto — Liga
perpetua contra Turcas folio. Sjec. xvii. o~s paper

We cannot find the Trattato . . . composto per M. Soriano, amongst the Relazioni
published in the 9 volumes (all that have arrived in London), of the excellent
collection of Relazioni Venete, published at Florence, by M. Alberi, and
therefore we have every reason to believe it unpublished.

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223 Carneval. Del Carnevale, la Mascherata, la Giostra, il Convito, il
Ballo et il Griuoco, Interlocutori Grifilo et Diafane
vellum folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

A present from C. T. De Murr to the celebrated Brunck, whose original auto-
graph Dissertation on Carnevals in French (consisting of thirty-six folio
pages) is prefixed.

22-1 Carrara (Ubertini) de profligato ad Tibiscum Magno Turcarum Sultano
ab Armis Leopoldii Imp. Epinicium, with various other Latin Poems,
Orations and Dissertations by this learned Jesuit in the volume

folio. S^c. xvii — xviii. on paper

A great portion of this large volume (more than 500 pages) seems to be in the
autograph of the author and unpublished. Concerning Ubertino Carrara, the
Jesuit, who was perhaps the most celebrated Latin poet of his time, and the
author of the Heroic Poem on Columbus, see the Biographie Universelle
(vol. VII, p. 202.)

225 Carthusiensium Ordinis Privilegia 8vo. Sjec. xv. on vellum

A curious collection. The first Bulla is of the Pope Alexander IV. (thirteenth
century). This manuscript affords curious specimens of old Arabic nume-
rical figures.

226 Cassiani (S. Joannis) Collationes cum Patribus Egyptiis Habitue

— Ejusdem super libero Arbitrio Deter minatio — Idem be Insti-
tutes Patrum et de octo principalibus Vitiis
blue morocco extra, joints, gilt edges, with the sides covered with rich
gold tooling in the Grolier style, by C. Lewis

folio. S^EC. XV. ON VELLUM
This beautiful manuscript is a splendid specimen of Italian caligraphy, having the
numerous elegant capitals richly illuminated in gold and colours. There
are also several exquisite borders most delicately painted in gold, silver and
colours, with birds, flowers, &c. in several of which full length portraits of
the Saint are introduced. As an example of Italian art in the fifteenth
century this is, perhaps, one of the most desirable manuscripts ever offered
for sale. St. John Cassian, born in the middle of the fourth century, is
considered the founder of the Sect of Semi-Pelagians, who rejected the
received Dogma respecting Grace and Original Sin. This new Doctrine
appeared most prominently in the XHIth Collation, and was opposed by
St. Prosper in his book " contra Collator em." The Council of Rome,
under Pope Gelasius, placed his writings amongst those which were to be
considered as apocryphal, and though it did not forbid them enjoined that
they should be read with caution. The best and most useful of his
writings is the work " de Institutis Patrum" although even in this the
germ of his erroneous opinions concerning Grace is perceptible. His
language being clear, easy, agreeable, ingenious, and although perhaps too
diffuse, full of unction and persuasion, his writings have been the chief
source from whence founders of monastic institutions have drawn their rules.
St. Cassian was himself the Founder of two monastic institutions, male and
female, of which the celebrated Abbey of St. Victor, near Marseilles, was
the first, and over which he was still presiding in the year 433, (as is men-
tioned in the Chronicle of St. Prosper) having under his discipline nearly
5000 Monks. The best test of the value of his institutions is the fact
asserted by the Patriarch Photius, that in his day those monasteries which
still observed his rules strictly, were most flourishing, whilst those which
had neglected them were languishing or fallen into decay.

227 Cassiano. Incomenca el libro dele colationi di Sancti Padri composto

dal sapientissimo et clarissimo Abbate Johanni Cassiano

folio. SiEC. xiv — xv. on paper

This early Italian translation of the "Collationes Patrum" of St. John Cassian was

quoted, as unpublished, from a single manuscript by the Academy della

Crusca (See Vocabolario, vol. VI, p. 27). It has recently (in 1854) been

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52 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

published at Lucca by Monsignor Bini, to whom Italian literature is indebted
for several other important publications. In the preface M^1". Bini gives
interesting details relating to the scarcity and value of manuscripts containing
this classic version, stating that, one excepted, all the manuscripts of this
translation which he had inspected, were imperfect. The present one is
complete, containing the entire twenty-four CoUazioni, published by
Mgr. Bini, and it certainly looks older than the only complete manuscript,
quoted by the learned editor, which is of the year 1442. At the beginning
of each Collazione our manuscript contains an index of the chapters,
which is not in the edition. The text of the present manuscript is very
good and affords constant variations from the edition. As in his preface
(p. xix.) M8'1'. Bini has called especial attention to several portions of
the CoUazioni, which were quoted by " Fra Bartolommeo da San Concordio"
in his Ammaestramenti, we subjoin a few quotations of the same sentences
in order to show how much our manuscript differs from the edition :

Manuscript (Collaz. III. Cap. X.) Edition.

" Queste visibili riechezze del mondo " Adunque lasciando queste visibili

lasciandole noi non lasciamo le cose nostre riechezze del mondo non gittiamo le
ma l'altrui." nostre riechezze, ma l'altrui."

Manuscript (Collaz. V. Cap. IV.) Edition.

" A quelli che studiano in purita molto " Onde molto giova a coloro che stu-

lor giova se si levano dinanzi le materie diano in purita che sottraggano da loro
delle passioni carnali." primieramente le materie di quelle

cotali passioni per le quali si puo gene-
rare nell' anima che e ancora inferma o
ragione oricorclo di quelle cotali passionei"

In its laconic style, as well as in the selection of the words, our manuscript
is more conformable to the translation of "Fra Bartolommeo," and seems
older than the text published at Lucca.

228 Cassiano (S. Giovanni) Instituti delli Monaci Cenobiti

4to. Smc. xv. on paper

This important manuscript belonged to the famous library of S. Giustina of
Padova. The celebrated Apostolo Zeno in his annotations to Fontanini
(vol. II, p. 476) says concerning this translation, " Ne fu fatto un vecchio vol-
garizzamento da me veduto scritto a mano, ma non so se mai sia stato messo
alle stampe." The text is very good.

229 Cassiodori Senatoris Liber httmanarum Literarum qui scribitur

de Artibus et Disciplinis secularium Studiorum, hoc est de Gram-
matica, de Retthorica, (sic) de Dialetica, (sic) de Philosophia, de
Matematica, (sic) de Arithmetica, de Geometr-ica, (sic) de Astro-
nomia, de Musica — Atjqestintjs (S.) de Doctrina Christiana, contra
Mendacium, de Musica, de Ordine, de Civitate Dei, et de Genesi
ad litteram (Excerpta tantummodo ex S. Augustini Opusculis) —
Incerti Versus de XII Ventis

folio or rather square 4ito. Sjec. viii-ix. oisr tellum

This very important Manuscript of Cassiodorus, consisting of 109 leaves, with
very elegant diagrams, would afford many emendations of the text as exhi-
bited in the Benedictine edition. From folio 49 to 56 the scribe has
repeated a portion of the Treatise de Dialectica on account of the variations,
to be found chiefly in the examples.

This Manuscript, written partly in the finest Carlovingian small charac-
ters, and partly in the finest large and small uncial letters, belongs to
the end of the eighth or the beginning of the ninth century. Some pages
are entirely written in the most minute and finest uncial characters ever seen.
The Greek words also are very finely written in the uncial Greek character;
and the whole of the rubrics, as well as the numerous marginal notes, are
in the uncial character, which last fact is another test of the great antiquity
of the manuscript, which the form of some letters, chiefly of the g, shows
to have some connection with the Irish or Anglo-Saxon Schools. The
numerous diagrams are often ornamented with curious figures, and

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even with human heads, very finely executed. This manuscript contains
the most important scientific works of Cassiodorus, amongst which
the treatises de Arithmetica, de Geometria, de Astronomia} de Musica,
(the whole of them both with Roman and Greek numerical notes,
without any notion of a value of position or decimal system,) are extremely
important for the history of science. Manuscripts of these works of
Cassiodorus, as may be ascertained by consulting Haenel and the "Catalogus
Bibliothecae Regiae Pariensis," are of the greatest rarity. As an instance
of the importance of the various readings, we quote from the re-
verse of leaf 27, the words, Quod etiam Tullius in Ortensio, shewing
that the celebrated philosophical work of Cicero, called Hortensius, and
now lost, was still in existence in the time of Cassiodorus. Instead of this
interesting quotation, we find in the editions of Cassiodorus (even in' the
best by the learned Benedictine Doin Garet, vol. II, p. 544), the words
Tullius in ostensione, which signify nothing. At the end of the manuscript
we find the Incerti Versus de duodecim ventis, which were first edited by
Pithou, and subsequently republished by Burmann, Wernsdorf, Lemaire,
Meyer, &c, but always in such a shape as to set at defiance the skill of
the most learned philologist. This ancient little poem is so different in
our manuscript from the printed one that we deem it proper to print in
juxta-position the first verses taken from the manuscript, and the Wernsdorf
(Lemaire) edition which accompanies the manuscript :

Manuscript. Edition.

" Venti hiiquoque sex gemini dextra leva* ,;Quatuor a quadro consurgunt limine venti :

que iugantur Hos circum gemini dextra lasvaque ju-

Atque ita bis seno circumdant flainine gantur,

mundum Atque ita bis seno circumdant flamine

Primus aparthias artioo spirat ab axe mundum

huic nostra nomen lingua est sep- Primus Aparctias arctoo spirat ab axe

tentrio finetum Huic nostra nomen lingua est Septem-

Circius hinc dextro gelidus circumtonat trio factum.

antrothras grajcia propria dixere lo- Circius huic dexter gelido circumtonat

quella." antro :

ThrascianGrreci propria dixere loquela."

It is hardly necessary to add here that in the manuscript the greatest
portion of the first verse is wanting, and that the verses are written almost
like prose. (See also No. 248 in the present Catalogue.)

A previous owner has added to this manuscript valuable annotations, con-
taining various readings taken from an ancient manuscript in the public
library of Paris, &c. &c. This manuscript, as is apparent from a note pre-
fixed, was presented by a M. Bouche to M. Alexandre Dumas, the celebrated
novelist, at whose bankruptcy, after the revolution of 1848, it was sold. (See
facsimile).

230 Castaldo (Antonio, " Napolitano Principale Notaro del Begno ")
Historia delle cose aceorse in Napoli dal Tempo che fu. Vicere
D. Pietro di Toledo Marchese di Villafranca et d'altri particolari di
molti anni prima insino alia Ribellione di Ferrante Sanseverino
Principe di Salerno et d'altre occorenze dopoi seguite
vellum folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper

These memoirs, entering into the most minute details of private and public
events, are intimately connected with the history of the Emperor Charles V.
and contain more information about the manners of the Neapolitans
during the sixteenth century than any other work which we have seen on
the subject. This work was inserted in the sixth volume of the Raccolta di
Storici Napoletani, but we are informed by Giustiniani (Bibl. p. Ill) and
Soria, (Memorie, vol.1, p. 157,) that the publisher negociated with some
wealthy Neapolitan families in order to omit (for a certain sum of money)
those portions of Castaldo's work which might occasion them annoyance by
the details he gave of their ancestors. This manuscript would therefore
greatly assist a new editor, in restoring the mutilated work to its original
shape. See also No. 712 in the present Catalogue.

54 THE LIBRL MANUSCBIPTS.

231 Castillo (Diego Enriquez del, " Coronista Capellan y de su Consejo ")

Coronica del quarto Don Enrrique de Gloriosa Memoria

folio. Sjec. xvi. ON PAPER

This Chronicle was not published until 1787, and the manuscripts contain many-
interesting variations from the printed text.

232 Catalogue des Manuscrits et des Livres imprimes formant la Biblio-

theque de M. Grerard, Secretaire de S. M. l'Empereur d'Autriche

3 vols, folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

The bibliographical notices appended to many of the articles of this extensive
library render this manuscript Catalogue very interesting. The first volume
is entirely devoted to the extensive collection of manuscripts, which consisted
of several hundred volumes, chiefly relating to ancient French poetry and
history, and to the history of Flanders. Several of these manuscripts be-
longed formerly to the celebrated Abbey of St. Maximin at Treves, to the
Duke of Burgundy, or to Madame de Montfort, Chanoinesse du Chapitre de
Wandrie at Mons.

233 Cavalcha (Erate Domenico) Libro dell a Patientia. il quale si

chiama medicina del cuore. Seguita il serventese nel quale si contiene
le sententia del presente trattato della patientia — Egldio (B. Erate,
" II quale fu tertio conpagnio di Messere Sancto Erancescho ")

CAPITOLI DE VlTII ET DELLE VlRTTJDI

folio. SiEC. xv. (1450) on paper

Written in a very distinct hand on 118 leaves of very stout paper, having the
numerous capitals illuminated in gold and colours. At the end is the follow-
ing colophon : " Finito di scrivere di mano di Giovanni di canobi Amadori
Ciptadino Jiorentino questo di xxvii. del mese di settembre mccccl." This
excellent manuscript, very important to an Italian Scholar, was written
in Tuscany, and contains many good readings, and would improve, even in
the poem or Serventese at the end, the text given by Bottari, and recently
re-printed at Milan (1840) by Silvestri, in his edition of the Opere del
Cavalca, (17 vols, in l6mo). The text of the Capitoli di Frate Egidio, which
is one of the most ancient writings in the Italian language, is in this manu-
script much older and more genuine than the one appended to the Fioretti
di San Francesco (Firenze, 1714, in 4to.) an edition quoted by the Crusca
Academy. A few sentences taken from the beginning will suffice to cor-
roborate our statement.

Manuscript. Edition.

" La gratia di Dio e della sancte virtudi " La grazia di Dio e della virtu sono

sono via et schala di salire in cielo, ma via e scala da salire al Cielo ; ma li vizj

le vitia et i pecchati sono una schala da e li peccati sono via e scala da discen-

discendere nel profondo dell' inferno. Le dere nel profondo dello inferno. Le vizj e

vitia e peccati sono toscho mortale." li peccati sono tosico e veleno mortale."

234 Celadeni (Alexii, "Episcopi Gallipolitani ") Libri III Consolationis

ad Maxiinilianum Augustum de Obitu Eilii deque ipsa Morte in
genere 4<to. SiEC. xvi. on paper

We do not find the name of this writer mentioned by any author that we have
perused.

235 Ceremoniale delli Cardinali, vellum folio. S.EC. xviii. on paper

An unpublished work, expressly written as a Guide to those entering the service
of a Cardinal, and for Cardinals themselves. To show how minute are the
ceremonies of the Roman Cardinals, we find, at the end of this volume, that
the Cardinal is to meet the nephews of a dead Pope at the staircase, but
those of the existing Pope un passo meno.

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236 Cessulis (Jacobi de) Liber super Ludum Scaccorum. "Explicit Liber

de Moribus Hominum et Offitiis nobilium et popularium super Ludo
Scacchorum Deo gratias Amen" — Dantis Alagleriide Florentia
Liber Monarchia — Liber Faceti, Incipit: "Moribus et Vita
quisquis vult esse facetus " — De Opere Astrolabii, "Incipit Nomina
instrumentorum astrolabii haec sunt" ^to, S.ec. xiv. on telltjm

This manuscript has at the beginning the work of J. de Cessulis, which is the
original of the celebrated " Game and Playe of the Chesse," as it is
entitled by William Caxton, in his translation printed in 1474. This work,
which is here adorned with 1 3 curious illuminations representing the pieces,
was once so popular, that besides the original Latin, versions of it in English,
French, German, Dutch and Italian, were published in the fifteenth
century. The work of Dante on Monarchy is of the rarest occurrence
in manuscript, as it is not mentioned in the Catalogus Bibliothecce Regice
Parisiensis, or in Hsenel, who found only a translation of it into Italian
(dated 1462) in the Escurial. The Liber Faced, in verse, is as the title
expresses it facetious, but must not be confounded with the " Liber Faceti ,
docens Mores," which commences " Cum nihil utilius humance credo saluti.'"
In the Treatise de Opere Astrolabii, which is interesting and contains
several Arabic names, the numerical figures are written according to the
Arabic plan, but on folio 64 (reverse) the figures 114 for 24, shew a curious
mixture of the Arabic and old Roman systems. Relative to the " Liber
faceti " see also No. 14 in the present Catalogue.

237 Chamberland de la Fat (Avocat au Parlement de Paris) La Mede-

cine universelle avec les Regies et l'Ordre a observer pour la Mani-
pulation 4ito. Sej)tembre 1767, ON" paper

An autograph manuscript on Alchemy.

238 Chartier (Alain) L'Exil (en Prose et en Vers) — Le Litre do

Mellib^e et Dame Prudence (par Christine de Pisan) — Le Deb at
de Fortune et de Povrete — Le Bretiaire de Noblesse (par Alain
Chartier) en Vers — Le R-enojstcement damours — Lamaistt rendu
cordeliex- en l'observance damours (attribue a Martial d'AuvergneJ —
Le Mirouer des dames
vellum, ancient binding, with the arms of Jean Ghristofle Virey on the
sides, and the autograph of Claude JEnoc Virey on the first leaf

folio. S,EC. XV. ON PAPER

A very important collection of old French poems and prose works. The Mellibee
is one of the most curious works of that celebrated authoress of the four-
teenth century, Christine de Pisan, and the text of this manuscript is
exceedingly pure. Respecting CI. E. Virey, a very learned man, who died in
1636, see the Biographie Universelle. In the folio Paris edition of 1528, of
the works of A. Chartier, the Exil is printed under the less appropriate
name of the Clerical, and towards the end contains some alterations and
additions which are not in this manuscript. In this manuscript the Breviaire
de Noblesse often totally differs from the same work printed in the above-
mentioned edition. As an instance of these variations we give here the four
verses which follow the first three stanzas of that work, taken from the
manuscript and compared with the edition of 1528 :

Manuscript. Edition.

" Pour entendre comment nobles sont faits " Prince mondains qui vous distes parfaictz

Douze vertus monstrent ey leur affaire En noblesse se me voulez complaire

Doncques qui veult estre noble parfais Chascun de vous par esbat plusieurs fois

Ses heures dye en cestui breviaire." Ses beures dye en cestuy breviaire."

A new text of some of the works of the most celebrated French poet of the
fifteenth century would be a matter of considerable interest.

56 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

239 Chine. Memoire sur Ies Isles que les Chinois appellent Isles de Lieou

Kieou (Envoye de Chine par le P. Gaubil en Novbre. 1752)—
Caracteres Chinois combines selon le Choue-wen — Lettres Mon-
goles d'Ouldjaito Souldan et de l'Einpereur Arkhoun Khan (written
in 1305) folio. S.ec. xviii. on paper

An interesting geographical and historical collection. The Lettres Mongoles, so
important for history, are here in the original Oriental character with a
partial transcription. See " Memoires (Nouveaux) de TAcad. des Inscrip-
tions" (vol. VII, p. 335). We have in this manuscript some inquiries on
the subject, perhaps by De Guignes, before A. Remusat (1824).

240 Chronica Adefonsi III. Regis Asturiarum Cognomento Magni de

Regibus Gotorum a Wamba et Oretensium, usque ad Ordonium et
Sebastianum — Sampiri Astoricensis Episcopi Chronicon Regum
Legionis Era dcccciy. — Pelagii Ovetensis Episcopi Chronica
suorum Temporum Era 1020 — Chronicon Ovetense — Chronicon
Albaildense, 1014 — Chronicon triense ex vetusto Codice Ecclesia?
Compostellanss folio. S^c. xviii. on paper

Transcripts of the end of the last century of these Chronicles, so important for
the History of the Goths. Apparently prepared for publication.

241 Ciceronis (M. T.) Intectiv^e in Catalinam et in Sallustium cum ejus

Responsione. Item Orationes ante Exilium, Gratias agentis in
Senatu, et ad Populum ; et pro Domo. Item Paradoxa ; Orationes
in Yatinium Testem, pro M. Celio, pro Corn. Balbo, de Responis
Aruspicum, de Provinciis Consularibus, pro M. Marcello, pro Q.
Ligario, pro Rege Deiotaro ; de Amicitia ; de Senectute ; Ora-
tiones Philippics ; de Oratore ; Orator ad M. Brutum

folio. S.EC. xiv. ON VELLUM

A large and splendid manuscript on pure vellum, in double columns, which
appears to have been written in France, but some of the leaves about the
end seem to have been misplaced by the bookbinder. To find in a single
manuscript a collection of so many works of Cicero is a very rare occur-
rence. This appears to have belonged formerly to Hans Funes, whose
name is written both at the beginning and at the end. A curious fact is that
the name and rude likeness of a lady who, in the fifteenth century, possessed
this volume, are on the first page. " Hie liber vocatus Tulius nomine
est . . . . de jaqua Joannis . . . ." From another note written
towards the end this manuscript seems to have been during the fifteenth
century in the possession of Cardinal di San Giorgio, a nephew of Pope
Sixtus IV. The text of this manuscript is very good, and there are many
valuable various readings. As an instance we give the following, taken
towards the end of the second book of the De Oratore, compared with
Valpy's edition :

Manuscript. Edition.

" Id autem committere vides quam ho- " Id autem committere, vide quam sit

mini censorio." homini turpe censorio."

" At crassus agite vero inquit, ut vultis " Agite vero, ille inquit, ut vultis sed

sed nunc quidem quoniam est id temporis nunc quidem, quoniam id temporis est

surgendum censeo." sui-gendum censeo."

As in this manuscript the De Oratore offers such differences in the
divisions of the work, &c, from the edition it is to be supposed that its
text was derived from some other very ancient and hitherto uncollated codex.

242 Ciceronis (M. T.) Cato Major et Laelius ; Paradoxa ; Orationes pro

M. Marcello, Q. Ligario et Rege Deiotaro ; et de Officiis Libri.
Accedunt Invectivae Salustii in Ciceronem et Ciceronis in Salustium
in the original oinding, with clasp and brass bosses

folio. SjEC. xiv. ON YELLUM

In the Paradoxa the Greek is beautifully written. At the beginning, on the

interior cover, there is an old insciption, almost defaced but still visible,

THE LIBKI MANUSCBIPTS. 57

with these words : " Iste liber est congregationis Sancta? Justinae Ordinis
Sancti Benedicti," which shews that this fine manuscript formerly belonged
to the celebrated library of St. Justina de Padua. Written in a fine old
Italian hand, with painted capitals, it is very valuable on account of the
pureness of the text, which generally agrees with the best critical
editions, although there are also several various readings which deserve notice.
We give from it the conclusion of the " Oratio pro Marcello," the
words in italic shewing the variations from the text in Valpy's edition :
" Itaque C. Cesar sic tibi gratias ago, ut me omnibus rebus e te non
conservato solum, sed etiam ornato tamen ad tua in me innumerabilia merita
quod fieri iam posse non arbitrabar magnus hoc tuo facto cumulus accesserit."
It is well known that both the spurious but ancient Invectives, which here
follow the " Oratio pro Rege Deiotaro," are of very uncommon occurrence
in old manuscripts.

243 Ciceeo de Senectute, de Amicitia et de Paradoxis — Item ejusdem

Liber Sinonymtrum (sic) — Teactatus de Punctis

8vo. Sjec. xv. oisr vellum

A manuscript note prefixed states that this elegant manuscript was written for
Giovanni Grassi da Carpi, whose arms are emblazoned on the first page,
which is within an elegant border. The capitals throughout are illuminated
in gold and colours. In his " Bibliotheca Latina" Fabricius says that the
Pseudo Ciceronis Liber de Synonymis was published at Augsburg in 1488,
under the title of " De Proprietatibus Terminorum," and at Padua in 1483,
with the title of De Proprietate Terminorum. From the quotations given by
Fabricius it seems that the present manuscript, which begins with the letter
of Cicero to Lucio Vecturio, not only contains several various readings,
but that after the said letter the manuscript work is quite different from
the Augsburg edition. It does not begin like that with " Inter polli-
ceri et promittere," (for being alphabetically arranged, the first sentence
of it is "Abditum: opertum : obscurum," &c. &c.) and at the proper
places instead of Pollicere or Promittere we find " Pollet : Adornatum,"
&c. and " Promitto : Polliceor," &c. Manuscripts of the Synonyma are
scarce, and this is beautifully written in red and black, with ample
margins of the purest vellum. The "Tractatus de punctorum ordine,"
which is at the end, begins with the words " Quaedam sunt essentialia
quaedam accidentalia." We do not find it either in the collection of
Putschius or Gothofredus, and it seems to be a rather modern work.
At the end of the volume the scribe has written these two verses :

" Qui sequitur bachuni taxillos et meretrices
Vivet infamis : et semper egenus erit."

We shall only add that throughout this manuscript there are numerous
important various readings, and as an instance content ourselves with
giving the verses at the beginning of the De Senectute, as compared with
Lemaire's edition :

Manuscript. Edition.

" 0 Tite si quid ego te adiuto curamve O Tite si quid ego adiuto curamve

levasso ' levasso,

Qua? te uuuc coquit versatque in pec- Quse nunc te coquit et versat sub

tore fixa pectore fixa

" Et qua depriraeris en quid erit premij ?' Ecquid erit pretii? "

244 Ciceeonis (M. T.) Cato Major et Laelius

oblong 12mo. SiEC. xv. on vellum

A very elegant and excellent manuscript written by an Italian Scribe in italic, about
the middle of the XVth century. It contains many interesting various
readings. For instance, at the beginning of the Cato major, after the first
two well-known verses, instead of Ecquid erit pretii, as usually in the
editions, this manuscript has, like the previous one " et quae deprimeris
ecquid erit premii." Such a variation in an author so much studied is very
valuable. We cannot find any mention of it in the best editions of

58 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

the work De Senectute, nor even in the excellent edition of the Cato
Major, given by M. Bouillet, in preparing which he was so much assisted
by the admirable labours of M. V. Leclerc upon Cicero.

245 Cicerones (M. T.) Epistolae ad Diversos (seu ad Eamiliares)

folio. SiEC. xiv. oisr yellum
This fine manuscript, written in Italy, on pure vellum, which deserves collation on
account of the various readings it exhibits, is also valuable for the emen-
dations written on the margins by no mean scholar, if they are conjectural,
and very important if taken from an older Codex. As an example, in the
first Epistle to Lentulus for conquiescas, the marginal annotator suggests
conquiesti, and for se egit sic egit, both which readings are adopted by Valpy.
As a specimen of the varise lectiones the collation of the Ep. ii. ad Lentulum
must suffice.

Manuscript. Edition.

Cannii Caniuii

Remover e Commovere
Nobis reconciliata voluntas esse Senatus Reconciliata nobis voluntas Senatus esse :

quod cum dicendo quod turn dicendo

Prospexeram Perspexeram

Id est quidem factum Id quod est factum

Hcec controversia. Hac controversia.

An additional proof showing that this manuscript is derived from a much
older one, and in all probability not collated, is that it not only contains
important variations (in several cases agreeing with the Medicean manuscript
quoted in Valpy), but also that the Epistolae are disposed in quite a
different order from the editions of the Familiares. The first seven books
generally agree with the editions, but instead of the eighth book (Ccelii ad
Ciceronem) we have in the manuscript the long and celebrated letter of
Cicero ad Quintum Fratrem, which is generally printed after the " Epistolae
ad Atticum." Then follow a great number of letters from or to Cicero,
including those from Caasar, Antonius, Terentia, Dolabella, Tiro, &c.

246 Ciceronis (M. T.) Epistolae ad Atticum, Brutum, Quintum Fratrem

aliosque Eamiliares folio. Sjsc. xv. on yellum

Beautifully written by an Italian scribe on 276 leaves of very pure vellum, and
adorned with elegant capitals illuminated in gold and colours, the first page
being surrounded by a very elaborate border, having at the bottom two
winged Cupids, supporting a shield from which the arms have been erased.
Inthe early part of the manuscriptthe Greek quotations, omitted by the Scribe,
have been supplied in a more recent hand, very like the autograph of Paul
Manuce, to whom this copy formerly belonged, as is stated in a manuscript
memorandum written in the early part of the XVIIth century, and pasted
on the fly-leaf. Some of the marginal annotations in small characters, are
also undoubtedly in the well-known handwriting of Paulus Manutius. At
the end are two letters in a more recent hand, one from Plutarch to Trajan,
and the other from Cornelia, the Daughter of Scipio Africanus, to her son
C. Gracchus, with a short life of her prefixed. But it is not only on account
of its caligraphy that this manuscript deserves great attention, for it is well-
known that nothing is more rare than ancient manuscripts containing
the Epistolae ad Atticum. So much so is it the case that while in the
great "Catalogus Bibl. Reg. Paris." there are almost innumerable manuscripts
of the Epistolae ad familiares, only five manuscripts (the whole of them
rather modern) of the ad Atticum are described in the same catalogue. In
this manuscript the various portions are not arranged as in the editions,
and it contains a great number of various readings which it would be too
long to quote here, but which deserve the attention of the scholar.

247 Ciceeo (Marcus Tullius) de Officiis

in the original binding, with clasjys and brasses fol. S^;c. xiv. on yellum

A valuable manuscript written in Italy, in double columns, with glosses, various
readings and corrections taken from other manuscripts by some learned
Florentine of the fifteenth century, as appears from the orthography of an

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ancient note at the beginning, "I (Uno) Tulio de Offitiis tocho (sec) nelle
divise." The text is excellent and offers valuable variations from the editions.
At the end there is a small Latin poem, 'Nomina Apostolorum, and other verses.

248 Ciceroni s Officiorum Liber folio. Sjec. xiv. on yelltjm

The name of the Scribe is at the end of the Offices :

M: ::*s ist: l:*b:r : st 1 : on-rd:* b::n:* qu::nd'm Ingh.
M25s Ist2 I3b2r 2st I24nlrd3 b4n3 qu4dlm Inghl
Meus iste liber est leonardi boni quondam Inghi.

Which mode of representing the vowels by dots or numbers has some
connexion with the numerical figures expressed by dots, which are
mentioned in the Archseologia (vol. X, p. 373). Bon or Boni was a
noble Venetian family known to collectors for their love of fine manu-
scripts and scarce books, finely bound. At the commencement is the
Pseudo -Epistle of Pontius Pilate, which is rare in manuscript. After
the " Liber de officiis" are letters addressed to the King of Cyprus and the
Doge of Genoa, dated Padua 1381, followed by Latin Grammatical Treatises
in verse and prose. This fine manuscript successively belonged to several
learned men whose names are written here and there with various dates of
the fifteenth century on different leaves, some having been defaced. One of
these early possessors was Franciscus Panhormita. There is a Greek alphabet
finely written on the last page and an inscription in modern Greek at the end
of the work of Cicero. The grammatical works on prosody which fill the
last six pages of the manuscript, are of two different descriptions. The
first is a treatise on prosody, consisting of about two hundred verses,
beginning " Cum quo sublimis et compositiva nobis," and the other a
prose treatise on prosody, commencing " Litterarum aliae sunt vocales
alise consonantes." Of neither of these grammatical tracts can a trace be
found in Gothofredus, Putschius, Lindemann, Keil, Gaisford, or in any other
collection that we have perused, and they are therefore most probably
unpublished. They are written in treble columns, which is a very rare
occurence in manuscripts. The last page contains, with appropriate dia-
grams, the versus de ventis, which the celebrated Pithou first published in
his Epigrammata Vetera, and which P. Burman has inserted in his
Anthologia latinorum epigrammatum (vol. II, p. 386), stating " Hos versus
ultra modo depravatos video." These verses which are of very rare
occurence in manuscripts are found in the present volume, with such a
number of various readings as to be almost a different Poem. We give
here as an instance of these variations the first six verses as they are
written in this manuscript (see also No. 229 in the present Catalogue) :

" Quatuor a quadro consurgunt undique venti
Hos circum gemini dextra levaque premuntur
.... bissenum tenent hoc ordine mondum
(Sunt?) subsolanus vulturnus et eurus eoo
Circius occasum Zefirusque favonius anient
Subveniunt aquilo, Boreas et horus ab alto."

249 Cicero (M. T.) de Officiis et de Paradoxis cum Glossis et Notis

folio. S^c. xv. (1425) on vellum

Finely written by an Italian scribe with the date thus: " miiiixxv." Not
only are the various readings exhibited by this manuscript of importance
to the critical scholar, but the Notes, and even the Glossae, generally so
worthless, are also of the greatest value. To each of the numerous divisions
there is a heading in red ink, which is not to be found in the printed
editions. The books are not divided in the usual manner, for the first and
second chapters of Book II. form the two last of Book I. in this manuscript.
The following may serve as a specimen of the " Varise Lectiones" :

Manuscript. Valpt Edition.

Liber II. cap. I. " In quo verbo Liber II, cap. III. " In quo lapsa

lapsa consuetudo deflexit de via sensim- consuetudo deflexit de via sensimque eo

que eo deducta est ut ab honesto utile deducta est ut honestatem ab utilitate

secernens." secernens," &c.

Manuscripts of the Paradoxa are not of common occurrence.

60 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

250 Ciceeo (M. T.) de Officiis

old French green morocco, gilt edges . Hvo. Sjec. xv. on vellum

Written on pure vellum in 1436, with the name of the scribe, viz. "Explicit liber
officiorum Marci tullii Ciceronis, finit9 p me Johen franq in anno dzi
M° cccc° 36° decima die Marcy." Singularly enough in this manuscript
the entire work is divided into various chapters, with the rubrics written in
red. At the beginning of the work there is an elegant border in gold and
colours, and here and there are some curious drawings on the margins. At
the end there is a tract of S. Ambrosius de Rege, and at the beginning
several pages in old French upon the Plague, with some abstracts from
various ancient authors, and amongst them the curious sentence from
Isidorus, " Greci involute: Romani graviter, Angli pompatice : Galli
splendide dictare consueverunt."

251 Ciceeo (M. T.) de Officiis Accedit Aretini Prsefatio ad Cosmam Medi-

eem ad librum Aristotelis CEconomicorum
in the original stamped binding, with clasp, on which is engraved udroite-
voyr" 8vo. S^ec. xv. on vellum

Written on pure vellum by a French artist at the latter part of the fifteenth
century in a neat running hand, with the initials illuminated in gold and
colours, and a fine border on the first leaf. It consists of 134 leaves,
numbered at the bottom corner. This manuscript belonged to Jean des
Marets, whose autograph signature is on the fly leaf.

252 Ciceeo (M. T.) de Officiis, in the original binding

4t0. SjGC. XV. PAETLY ON VELLUM, PAETLT ON PAPEE

A valuable manuscript, written in Italy in Roman characters. The text is
excellent, with valuable various readings. For instance, almost at the
beginning we find :

Manuscript. Valpt.

" Neque id in philosophia solum sed " Neque id philosophia solum sedetiam

etiam feci in exertitatione dicendi, in dicendi exercitatione feci ; idem tibi

ilidem libi faciendum ut par sis mihi in censeo faciendum, ut par sis in utrius-

utriusque horationis facultate." que orationis facilitate."

The de Officiis, concluding with the verses :

" Excellunt cunctos hi libi-os phylosophorum
Libri quos fecit Tullius ofntiorum,"

is followed by the long and celebrated Epistle of Cicero to his brother,
beginning, " Etsi non dubitabam," of which, however, the conclusion is
wanting.

253 Ciceeo (M. T.) de Oratore — Ejusdem Oratoriae partitiones — Ejusdem

Orator (cum Glossis) folio. S^ec. xv. on papee

The " Orator " has been erroneously headed De optimo genere dicendi in the
manuscript. The last two works are of no common occurrence inMSS.
The various readings in this Codex appear similar to those of the MSS.
used by the Juntas for their edition, with, however, some variations.

254 Ciceeonis (M. T.) Ehetorica ad Herennium

original binding, with clasps folio. S^ec. xiv. on vellum

Written in a beautiful Italian hand, and adorned with capitals, richly illuminated
in colours heightened with burnished gold, the first page emblazoned with
Italian arms. This manuscript affords interesting various readings and with
the three following lots it supports the opinion of those who attribute this
work to Cicero, and not to a writer designated as Incertus.

255 Ciceeonis (M. T.) Khetorica ad Gaium Herennium cum Glossis

original oak binding 4ito. Sjec. xiv. on vellum

A fine Italian manuscript. The text is very pure, and contains even at the
beginning some various readings. The glosses are old and interesting.

THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS. 61

256 Ciceeonis (M. T.) Ehetorica ad Herenninm cum Glosais

m the original oak binding Mo. S^ec. xiv. oisr paper

The text of this manuscript is very pure, and the work is divided into chapters
under various headings, very different from the editions.

257 Ciceeonis (M. T.) Ehetorica ad Herennium

original hinding 4ito. Sjec. xv. (1468) on paper

A valuable manuscript with the name of the scribe : "Ego Pierus Martini Fuantii
de Sancto Severino, scripsi nunc librum, Anno Domini millesimo quatra-
centessimo sexagessimo octavo, Tempore Pauli Papae secundi in Scola
egregii preceptoris Petri Fehtiani de Ciculo, Amen." At the beginning
there are old glosses apparently unpublished.

258 Cicerone (M. T.) Eethorica nova de Tulio translatata in vulgare

4tto. S.EC. XV. ON VELLTJM

A most elegant manuscript on Italian vellum, consisting of 75 leaves, with the
capitals executed in gold and colours, and having six initial letters painted as
miniatures, in colours heightened with gold. The first page is surrounded
by a beautiful illuminated border, containing several figures of angels,
monks, animals, &c, having at the bottom the figure of a lady (most
probably a likeness), holding a shield with the arms of the ancient owner.
The illuminations are of a peculiar character, very seldom to be found in
manuscripts. The translation (a curious fact) is not in Italian, but in the
Venetian dialect, as pure as possible, as will be seen from the following
quotation : " Cornelio homo nuovo iera enzegnoso, iera amaistrado, iera a
boni homeni e studiosi amigo."

259 Ciceeonis (M. T.) Somnium Scipionis (cum quibusdam Glossis) —

De Legibus quibusdam Digesti cum Commentario, Jacobi Putei

4itO. SiEC. XV. ON PAPER

In the autograph of the celebrated Jacopo del Pozzo, who was one of the
most famous Jurists of his time, and Professor of Jurisprudence at Pavia.
(See also No. 847 in the present Catalogue).

260 Ciceeonis (M. T.) Tusculanae Disputationes 4to, Sjec. xv. on paper

With the name of the owner for whom it was written : "Hie liber est Pauli de
Bargalglis," and also that of the scribe, " Scriptus per me Petrum de Lan-
dinis Vulterranum, Anno dni. 1414." The text is very pure. The learned
scribe was probably a relative of Cristoforo Landino, the celebrated com-
mentator of Dante, who was born in 1424, and studied at Volterra under
Angiolo da Todi.

261 Cini (Fra Giulio, "Novitionel Convento del Annontiata di Fiorenza")

Eime 4*to. Sjec. xvi. (1581) on paper

An autograph manuscript prepared for the press but never published. The
dedication to J. Tavanthio, General of the Order of Serviti, is dated Florentioz
tertio Nonas Septembris, Anno cioiolxxxi. This volume contains Latin
poems as well as Sonneti and Canzone in Italian. Among the Latin verses
is one "in Priapum."

262 Cisterciensis Ordinis S. Benedicti Ofeicia Ecclesiastica et

Eeoul,e cum Privilegiis, &c. 12mo. Sjeo. xiii. on vellum

Prefixed is a most important list, consisting of nine leaves in double columns, of
the Cistercian Monasteries and Nunneries, in all parts of the globe, amongst
which will be found Bellus Locus in Anglia, Regalis Locus juxta Oxoniam
in Anglia, Reivallis in Anglia, De Fontanis in Anglia, Mellifons in Hybernia,
Boxelia in Anglia, Furnestum in Anglia, De Jac and Blanca Lauda in
Wallia, Combmare in Anglia, Straford in Anglia, Bildeuas in Anglia, St.
Eduardus in Scotia, and the numerous others subsequently established in
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, as Fili^e of the Mother-Churches.
The list begins with this heading: "Anno domini M° xcvin° xn° Kal.
Aprilis fundata est domus Cystercii Cabilonensis dyoceseos, mater totius

62 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

ordinis nostri." The list, written certainly no later than the end of the
Xlllth century, contains about 800 names of monasteries and nunneries of
that order, which (from Tripoli, Constantinople and Hungary, to the end of
Ireland and Spain) were established in less than two centuries ! This volume
contains also a collection of privilegia and bullae delivered by ancient popes ;
the Carta Caritatis, the Constitutiones of the year 1256, and some other
matters of the same kind, including some written at a later period. A very
curious fact is that one of the Constitutiones of the year 1256, stating
" De secularibus ne serviant in coquinis vel mensa abbatis " is defaced.
In every respect this manuscript, consisting of several hundred leaves of
vellum, is interesting.

263 Cistekciensis Ordinis Officium ad Monachum seu Monialem benedi-

cendum 8vo. SiEC. xvi. on vellum

Beautifully written, with the arms of the first owner (the Fleur de lis, &c.)
emblazoned in gold and colours on the last leaf.

264 Claieaut (A. C.) Examen d'une Courbe Geometrique

4>to. Smc. xviii. oisr paper

An autograph manuscript with diagrams, dated 3 Janvier ] 728 a Paris. When
this celebrated mathematician wrote this Examen he was only 15 years
old, having been born in 1713.

265 Claudlant (Claudii) in Rufinum Libri II. et alia Opiiscula, ctjm

Glossis peevetustis (ineditis) small folio. $mc. xii, on vellum

The readings of this early manuscript generally agree with those deemed by
Burman the best, and reproduced by Valpy in his edition. As a specimen
we select a few of those exhibited in the Epithalamium Honorii et Mariae :

Manuscript.

Edition.

Manuscript.

Edition.

Line 1 promissae
„ 2 primoque
„ 7 fixit

progressse
pronoque
finxit

Line

34 Stilico

37 Mihi pignus

44 reddis

Stilichon
Fcenus mihi
tradis

„ 14 longa moras

„ 19 Thessalico roseos

segra moras
Thesalicos roseo

n

61 perpetuo

contempta

perpetuum
contenta

pectebat pectine
crines

pectebat pollice
crines

V

68 Platanus Platanis
79 iros faciles

Platani platanis
faciles irsd

„ 24 tlialamis

tabnlis

)>

83 ventis

pennis

„ 33 Orandum misi

Ortatum misi

It is not only as a poet that Claudian deserves the attention of scholars,
but more especially also for the information his poems afford relative to
the obscure and almost unknown history of the barbarians whose irruptions
were so fatal to the Roman empire. The poems, In Stilichonem, and De
Bello Getico, for instance, afford a great number of interesting facts scarcely
to be found elsewhere. In this respect additional value is given to this manu-
script by the numerous marginal glosses, a great portion of which were
written in a fine regular minute character at the time of the manuscript,
and whose author must have been, no doubt, almost coeval with Claudian
himself. These glosses abound with historical facts, and philological
explanations of great interest. For instance, in explaining the Fatidico
custos Romani carbasus cevi {De Bello Getico, 232) the printed commentators
relate from Aulus Gellius the well-known story of the Sibylline books offered
for sale to Tarquin the Proud, and add, " Carbasus Linteum tenuissimum
continens libros seu carmina Sibyllina quae erant fatidica seu res futuras
praedicentia," while in this manuscript (leaf 71) the commentator says
" Carb. vocat cortinam que est Rome in templo Apollinis quam solebat sub
intrare sacerdotissa et predicere futura quam diu esset duraturum Romanum
imperium," which affords an additional proof of the antiquity of the com-
mentary written while the Cortina still existed at Rome, and probably gives
a better explanation of the word Carbasus than that contained in some of the
modern commentaries, as we know from Plinius (lib. XIX. c. I,) that
Carbasus was the name (very likely of old Spanish origin) of a very delicate
and fine Spanish linum. The glosses relating to Hannibal, Spartacus, Stilicon,

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&c. contain much interesting historical information. This valuable manu-
script, of narrow size {format agenda) consisting of seventy-one thin vellum
leaves, is more ancient than any of the manuscripts of Claudian which are
quoted in the " Recensio Codicum MSS. Claudiani qui in Bibliothecis
Britannicis asservantur," printed before the Index in the fourth volume of
Valpy's edition of this author. The same may be said of the manu-
scripts of Claudian described in the Catalogus Bibl. Reg. Paris, which, as
well as those described by Bandini as existing in the celebrated Medicean
library of Florence, are of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and the following
centuries, the only exception being a fragment of Claudianus (de raptu
Proserpinse) of the twelfth century, which is in the Medicean (See facsimile)-

266 Codri Aretini Logica

original binding 12mo. S^ec. xv. (1488) on velltjm

Apparently (at least a portion) in the author's autograph, as on the last leaf
of the work is written " Finis per me Codrum Aretinum Marescottor. Proz-
ceptor. die XXII mensis Septembris 1488." This Treatise was probably
compiled for his pupils, the Marescotti, a noble family of Bologna, and is
unpublished. On the flyleaf there is the following memorandum, " Questa
logiccha e del povero Codro Brentadore." We cannot find any mention of
this Codrus, and are therefore unable to trace what was his connexion with
the celebrated Codrus Urceus, who was Professor at Bologna from 1480
until 1500, when he died. Indeed the author might be the professor
for, as a curious fact, it may be mentioned that Urceus and Brentadore are
synonymous terms for a pitcher. There are numerous diagrams in this
manuscript, the fly-leaves of which are palimpsest.

267 Collections de M. Sarasin, Scudery, &c. 4fo. Sjec. xvii. on paper

Apparently the autograph Common- Place-Book of an English Roman Catholic,
written, generally in French, during the years 1660-64. An English Letter
addressed, 8 April, 1663, to Father Gough, on his requesting the writer to
prepare Theses, " to my Lord Newcastle," seeks information " whether my
Epistle dedicatory must runn most upon my lords or my ladies praises,"
and requests the Father to thank Mr. Potter " for his promise to send mee
some comedies and tragedies." This volume, written in France, contains
curious information about several celebrated French writers of the XVI Ith
century.

268 Collenucii (Pandulphi, " Pisauriensis ") Apologi cui Tituli Agenoria,

Misotenes, Alithia et Bombarda, cum Dedicatione, " Marco S. Maria?
in Via lata Diacono Cardinali Patrirnoniique Legato," Sebastiani de
Martinis de Mileximo Mo. 1518, on paper

An autograph manuscript of the editor, with the following colophon : " Sebas-
tianus de Martinis de Mileximo scribebat Romce, Anno Domini 1518, de
Mense Decembris, Pontificatus Leonis Xmi Anno VIt0." The dedication
by Sebastianus de Martinis is a very learned tract, with Greek quotations, &c.
We do not find Seb. Martini in Tiraboschi. Collenuccio is a well-known
historian and poet, whom the " Signore di Pesaro " caused to be privately
hanged in 1500.

269 Columbani (" Sancti Abbatis Luxoviensis et postea Bobiensis,"

Hiberni) Yita scripta ab ejusdem Discipulo (Jona Hiberno)

4tto. S^EC. ix. ON YELLTJM

This important manuscript contains the Life of the Irish Saint Columbanus, and
is the more valuable because it presents a pure text without the
interpolations which disfigure those written by later Scribes to such an
extent as to render them utterly worthless in a historical point of view.
Not only for the sacred, but also for the profane history of his time, this
Life of St. Columbanus is extremely interesting. This manuscript is written
in the purest Carlovingian character, with the headings and the Roman
numerical figures in red rustic capital letters, having the initials (the first
ornamented) in red also. Some Latin words in this manuscript are wiitten
with accents like neumes. See also on this point No. 1103 in the present
Catalogue. (See facsimile.)

64 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

270 Colttmpna (G-uidonis de) Messaniensis Historia Destructions Troise

calf gilt Mo. SiEC. xiv. on yellum

This celebrated Romance, written in 1287, which Guido pretends to be a genuine
history taken from Dictys Cretensis, was so extremely popular as to find
translators into every language of Europe, our early English Poet Lydgate
among the number. The author accompanied Edward I. on his return
from the Crusades to England. At the beginning there are two leaves of
a Lectionarium, written upon vellum, in the eleventh century, with ancient
musical notes.

270* Coltjmna (G-uidonis de) Historia Trojana folio. S^ec. xv. on paper

This manuscript, having at end the date of 1474, in which year it was
transcribed and was then in the possession of " Nobilis et generosi Joh.
Porreti de Tresforcio notarii," is imperfect at the beginning.

271 Colttmpnis (Guidonis de) Liber de Destructione Magna? Troyae

folio. SyEC. XV. ON PAPER

Written in a very distinct hand, with the first initial, representing a knight in
armour, illuminated. This manuscript offers some curious various readings,
and in the division into various chapters it entirely differs from the previous
manuscripts.

272 COMEDIA INTITULATA AlTRELIA, velllim 4ito. SMC. X\d. ON PAPER

Written in the early part of the sixteenth century, and probably in the auto-
graph of the author, who was undoubtedly of Siena. This comedy, which
we did not find in any bibliographer, seems never to have been published.
In it seventeen characters, mostly described as Sienese and bearing real
family names, are introduced. Scheggione, a peasant, speaks in the rural
Siena dialect, and two of the principal persons in Spanish. The Roll of the
Hypocrite, or Mawworm, is given to Fra Paraclito, a Friar of the order of
St. Austin.

273 Comedia. I tre Fratelli Eivali per la Sorella

sewed folio. SiEC. xviii.

The scene is laid in the Villa di Gravisenda (Gravesend). This manuscript
play which is not mentioned by Allacci and which appears to be quite
unknown, was written in the first part of the last century.

274 Conclave. Cardinalis Papiensis (Jacobi Amanati Lucensis) de Elec-

tione Pontificis ad Cardinalem Senensem (Franciscum Picolomineum)
Epistola folio. &mc. xv. (1464) on paper

A letter of 12 pages, addressed by the Cardinal of Pavia, who acted as Secretary
of the Conclave, to the Cardinal of Siena, recommending great care in the
choice of a new Pontiff. The address and corrections are in the Cardinal's
autograph.

275 Conclave. Discorso (di Girol. Baruffaldi Ferrarese) dell' Ambas-

ciatore dello Stato Ecclesiastico al Conclave per la Sede Vacante di
Clemente XII. 4do. Sjec. xviii. on paper

In the same volume is a "Capitolo del S. Gio. Bat. Fagioli, fatto li 6 Aprile, al Padre
D. Pantaleone Dollera, &c." The Discorso, in the autograph of Baruffaldi,
is not mentioned in the Bibliografia Storied dello stato Pontifcio.

276 Conclave dell' Anno mdcclxxiv, Dranima per Musica nel Teatro delle

Dame nel Carnevale del 1774 Svo. 1774, on paper

For writing this most curious satirical work the author (the Abate Sertor)
remained some time imprisoned in the Castel Sant Angelo. At the end
there is the poem of Sertor to the Pope, praying for mercy.

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277 Conclave. Aforismi politici per i Cardinali del Conclave fatti dall5

E. S. Cardinal Azzolini — Capita Bulla) Pii IV. de Reform at ione
Conclavis in Electione Romani Pontificis — Foglio coll' Eta e Patria
di ciaschedun Cardinale che venne in Conclave — Dubbii sopra la
Costituzione de eligendo Summo Pontifice — Conclave della Sede
Yacante di Papa Benedetto XI. dove fut creato Papa Clemente V.

4ito. Sjec. xviii. on paper

A valuable collection of curious documents relative to Conclaves. The
Aforismi by Cardinal Azzolini, who was the favorite of the famous Reine
Christine de Suede, are very singular and interesting.

278 Condamine (Charles Marie de la) son Eloge par Condorcet

4ito. Svec. xviii. on paper

This is the Eloge pronounced by Condorcet in the French Academy of Sciences,
and has the autograph corrections of the author. Prefixed is a letter, with-
out signature, from Voltaire to the Comte d'Argental.

279 Constantini Aeri, " Monachi Cassinensis," (vel potius Isaaci Israelite)

Viaticum, cum Notulis Girardi Cremonensis
old red morocco folio. SiEC. xii-xiii. on vellum

This eminent physician was born at Carthage at the beginning of the fifteenth
century, and after several journies to the East became a monk at Cassino.
He was so learned that Petrus Diaconus designates him " Philosophicis
studiis plenissime eruditus Orientis et Occidentis Magister novusque effulgens
Hippocrates." The Viaticum is supposed to be a translation from the
original Arabic of Ishak-Ben-Honain, the famous Israelite Doctor. This
early manuscript, containing writings of Constantinus and Girardus
two of the most ancient and celebrated translators of scientific works from
the Arabic, deserves peculiar attention, as the numerical figures are all
written according to the Roman alphabetical system, while several signs
(for instance the 3) used now to express some number, are merely
abbreviations of Latin words in this volume. So 3 is for uncia, 6 for
Galenus, 9 for con, and in a similar way the signs 5, -f-, &c. are used in
this manuscript, a fact which must be noticed lest it should be imagined
that they are figures of numbers, which at that time, even when used
according to the Arabic system, were very different. Besides the com-
mentary of Girardus, this manuscript contains some other glosses by a
more modern hand. As we have already stated in the description of No. 12
in the present Catalogue, the importance of the works of the celebrated
Constantinus, whose life is related by his ancient biographers in the style
of the Arabian Nights, has lately been fully appreciated by M. De
Renzi in his excellent and learned Collectio Salernitana (vol. I. p. 165).

280 Constantini Monaci Viatici Libri VII. — G-aleni Liber Tegni de sanis

et egris et neutris corporibus et signis et eorum causis — AviCENNiE
Elebotomia, with curious drawings — Mauri (Magistri) Elebotomia —
Liber de Sanitate — Basis Liber Eebrium — De accidentibus leprae
communibus— Hipocratis Liber peri ton oxeon nachomaton

4t0. $J£C. xiv. ON VELLUM

As we have already stated, this work of the monk Constantinus, the most cele-
brated translator of scientific works from the Arabic during the Xlth century,
has been attributed to Isaac the physician. Maurus, who was afterwards one
of the luminaries of the Salernitan school, is quoted by /Egidius of Corbeil in a
poem published by Leyser. According to M. De Renzi (Collectio Salernitana
vol. I. p. 241) this work seems unpublished. This manuscript contains also a
great number of ancient secrets and prescriptions, and, (what is very
singular for the time) a large drawing of a man, with explanations relating
to the system of veins and arteries.

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66 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

281 Constitution!. Ordinationi et Directorio dell modo di vivere delle

Suore del terco Ordine della penitentia di Sec- Domenico Padre de'
frati predieatori che habitano nel Monasterio di Sea Caterina da
Siena vergine del dco ter90 ordine presso a Sco Marco in Pirenze
in the original binding 8vo. SiEC. xvi. ON yelltjm

This manuscript has the autograph approbation, dated 14 October, 1509, of the
celebrated F. Thomas de Vio Caietano, General of the Order, who
subsequently became a cardinal, and acted in Germany for the Papal
authority against Luther. In the XVth chapter of the regulations it is
stated amongst the other works which the nuns are allowed to do, that
they may transcribe books and make illuminations, provided they are not
lavori dishonesti.

282 Contareni (Grasparis Cardinalis) de Magistratibus et Republica Yene-

tormn Libri V. 4fo. Sjec. xvi. on paper

283 Contes Deyots, Pables et Paraboles, suivies de Moralites fort

spirituelles et instructives ecrites en Vieux Gaulois du XIII siecle

folio. S^ec. xiv-xv. on paper

According to a note at the beginning these Contes in old French were written
during the XHIth century. They are very curious, mixing up theological
matters with every sort of curious and sometimes even free anecdote,
exactly as in the Contes devots of the Fabliaux. Here is a specimen of
the curious stories contained in this manuscript : " Ci nous dit que une preud
femme vouloit gaignier XV sols au bourdel pour son mari geter hors de
prison et pour ce que ungs horns, la vit de ce pleurer il li bailla XV sols sans
touchier a elle et par cette bonne euvre, nostre seigneur li donna cognoissance
de son sauvement et fu puis ung grans preudons." See also Nos. 58 et
683 in the present Catalogue.

284 Conti (Giusto de) La Bella Mano (Poesie A morose)

4itO. SvEC. XV. ON PAPER

Giusto de' Conti da Valmontone (who died 19 Nov. 1449, as stated in the
Cronaca Riminese published by Muratori) was a celebrated poet who accor-
ding to Tiraboschi approaches nearest to Petrarch in the sweetness of his
verses, which have been named " La bella Mono," on account of his frequent
allusions to the beautiful hand of his mistress. This manuscript which is
headed " Justi de Comitibus Romani Utriusque Juris interpretis ac poetce
clarissimi hibellus f&liciter incipit intitulatus bella mano," exhibits some
valuable various readings when compared with the Verona quarto edition of
1753. As a sample we need only point out that in the third sonnet,
commencing "Giunse a natura un bel pensier gentile," the first line of the last
terzina reads instead of "Ed io," "E Dio mirava la piu degna forma," by
which sublime idea the beauty of the Poem is greatly increased. Besides
the Bella Mano, this manuscript contains at the end several sonnets written
by the anonymous scribe himself, who was a great admirer of the poet and
for the age, a very good poet, as appears from the following beautiful
sonnet following immediately after the Bella Mano :

" Non canto mai di Laura o Beatrice " Qual fu maivistopiu eccellente ingegno,

L' un tosco e 1' altro in si leggiadro stile, Spirti gentili anime elette e dive,

Che d' una bella man Giusto gentile Qual piu di fama e piu d'ogni honor

Con tanta altezza che piu dir non lice. degno?

0 Roma antiqua, hor nova produttrice, Pero se eterna gloria per voi vive

Quel frutto ch' era spento in te senile Sia celebrato hormai nel vostro regno

Ben vendicasti; ond' era oscura e vile Tra lauri, mirti e verdeggianti olive."
La gloria del tuo nome alto e felice."

This manuscript written about the middle of the XVth century, and perhaps in
the life-time of the author (as seems indicated by the hor nova produttrice
of the sonnet quoted above) was quite unknown to Mazzuchelli, who in his
biography of Giusto de' Conti prefixed to the Verona edition, gave a list of
all the manuscripts of this author that he could find.

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285 Cookery Book. Le Nature de le Coxe i quali le Persone se dibiano

uxare Svo. S&c. xv. on paper

This portion forms the third part of an early medical treatise written in Italian,
but which wants the first eight chapters. The Cookery- Book however is
complete with the following distich at the end :

" IToc scribi me fecit opus tute Jacopino
Gallica Lumbarda confxisa loquela serendoP

On the last leaves are various valuable recipes, " A fare acque ve^de ; — a
scrivere oro con la penna ; — a conzare lazulo j — a fare roseta fmaj —
a fare sisaJ — a fare Brasilio j — a fare Cenabrioj &c. &c. A vellum fly-
leaf at the end, taken from a manuscript of the Xllth century, contains the
commencement of a metrical treatise on grammar : " Janua sum rudibus
primam cupientibus artem " with the parsing, " Poeta quce pars est f Nomen
est. Quare est nomen, <bc." This is a very curious volume ; the Recipes
which occupy the last six pages and contain so many useful receipts
relating to the fine arts, and chiefly to the whole art of illumination, would,
if published, be extremely useful to modern artists of that kind. There is
also a receipt for cleaning books. The language is likewise very curious.
Glue is called sisa, perhaps the origin of the English word size.

286 Cookery-Book. A collection of choice Recipes for making Soups, Stews,

Puddings, Pastry and Preserving 4ito. Sjeo. xvii. and xviii. on paper

A very curious collection written by different hands.

287 Corelli (Jacobi, Coloniensis) Cronica Pontificum et Cardinalium (a

Silvestro usque ad G-regorium XII.)

MODERN TRANSCRIPT, Vellum folio. S.2EO. Xviii. ON PAPER

We learn from this manuscript that Corelli flourished in the year 1400, and
resided in Rome during the pontificate of Gregory XII. This interesting
work is not quoted in the "BibliografiaStorica dello stato Pontificio."

288 Coronelli (Padre M. V.) Prime Mosse dell' Armi Yenete contro

l'lmpero Ottomano nella Campagna mdclxxxiv.

folio. S.EC. Xvii. ON PAPER

An autograph manuscript of this eminent geographer, illustrated with maps and
plans, all beautifully drawn and coloured by the author himself. This work
remained unknown to M. Cicogna who, in his Saggio, speaks at length of
the author. Coronelli was Cosmographer to the Republic of Venice, Con-
fessor to the Duke of Parma and General of bis Order. He was an
enthusiastic admirer of every thing connected with the science of geo-
graphy, and was the founder of the Venetian Academy of Argonauts, the
principal object of which was the increase of geographical knowledge. He
also made for the Cardinal d'Estrees (who presented them to Louis XIV.)
those two enormous globes which, for a number of years, were so much
admired by the visitors to the great library of Paris (see Le Prince, Essai
Historique, p. 145).

289 Corsini (Monsignore Ottavio) Narratione del Viaggio fatto da Firenze

a Roma, da Roma in Francia con Monsig. Nuntio di N. S. a S. M.
Christianissima 1621, e Notizie sulla Corte di Luigi XIII.

4to. S,ec. xvii. ON PAPER
An autograph manuscript of a distinguished Florentine, who appears to have
been Cardinal Corsini's companion in his embassy to France. It contains
some curious unpublished information.

290 Corsini (Monsignore: Clemente XII?) Avvertimenti eRicordi Politici

— Doctjmenti Politici e Morali (Favole) del' Dott. Annibal Lomeri
di Siena Accademico Filomato detto il Satirico — Avvertimenti
bellissimi per la Corte del Sig. Conte di Verrua Amb. Residente di
Savoia in Roma folio. SvEC. xvii-xviii. on paper

An interesting collection. The political Favole of Lomeri are very singular.
We cannot find any mention showing that these works were printed.

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68 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

291 Cortona. Consilia scripta, Anno 1310, a Domino Baynaldo de Spello

in Controversia inter Episcopum Aretinnm et Comunitatem Cor-
tonre folio. SiEO. xviii. on paper

A transcript from the original. Very interesting for the ancient ecclesiastical
history of Tuscany.

292 Cramer (Gabriel) Cours de Mathematique folio. S^ec. xviii. on paper

In the autograph of Soubeyran, the Genevan engraver, and apparently a
course of lectures given by the celebrated Professor Cramer, author of the
"Analyse des Lignes Courbes" At the beginning there is an interesting
autograph letter by M. Al. Monteil (the author of well-known works on
French history) dated 10 Sept. 1836, from which we select the following
passage :

" II y a quelque trente si non quarante ans que mon confrere M. Thddenat me
proposa d'aller voir de sa part le celtfbre Lagrange, j'y allai et sous ses auspices je
f'us accueilli d'une maniere distingu^e. Je me permis de dire a M. Lagrange que je
voudrais Lien connaftre le rang des mathematiciens de France. II se mit, mais de
la maniere la plus modeste, et il ne pouvait d'ailleurs faire autrement, il se mit au
premier; ensuite il y mit, je crois, M. de la Place, ensuite je ne me souviens plus qui,
et, me dit-il, maintenant le quatri6me c'est notre ami Thedenat."

293 CnRiSTiNiE Reginse Suecise Conversionis brevis Narratio, with Tier por-

trait, engraved by Collin, prefixed
half calf &to. SiEC. xvii. on paper

291 Croniques depuis le Commencement du Monde et des Boys de France
veaufauve folio. S^:o. xv. partly on vellem and partly on paper

This manuscript was written during the reign of Charles VII. (from 1422 to 1461)
as the list of the Kings of France, which is at the beginning, ends with the
death of Charles VI, in 1422. These Croniques are divided into four parts.
The first is a translation of the Chronicles of St. Jerome; the second is a
translation of the history of Sigebert de Gemblours (from 482 to 813); the
third contains the celebrated romance of chivalry called the Chronique
de Turpin, but quite different from the edition given in 1527;
finally there is a Chronicle (chiefly of France) from 816 to 1307. For the
lover of French literature and history this is a very important collection,
which (to a great extent at least) seems never to have appeared in the
French language.

295 Crusca. Eaccolta di Prose degli Aecademici della Crusca (a M. Sal-
vim, Averani, &c.) dette da loro nell' Accademia medesima

folio-. Sj2C. xviii. (1705) on paper

Evidently prepared for publication, with a dedication to the Academicians
signed "20 Sett. 1705, Ulnforme Segretario," the adopted name of the
Abbate Alamanno Salviati, who was subsequently created a Cardinal.
This original manuscript, from the Academy Delia Crusca, passed into the
Salviati library, and afterwards belonged to the celebrated painter and
collector Bossi, who has written his name at the beginning. The volume
consists of 302 leaves and is important, for even the existence of several
of these prose pieces was unknown to the learned bibliographer Moreni.
For instance, he only knew from a private document that G. B. Compagni
belonged to the Crusca, whereas in this manuscript he would have found
a ragionamento of the same Compagni written in 1 700, when he was elected
Arcicohsolo. (See the Ruolo, published by Moreni at the end of the
Lettere del Eedi, Firenze 1825, in 8vo.)

29G Cemis (Ludovici de) Sacri Ordinis Carmelitarum Fiorum a Sacra
Scriptura collectorum mira Congregatio — Vitalis Cardinalis Lec-
tura (Postilla) super Apocalypsin, Anno 1437, die xviii Novembris
incepta per me F. Ludovicum Ordinis Carmelitarum — Tractates

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do huiimiiis condictionibus quadrifaria distinctione partitus Rosarium
dictus — IsocitATis Oratio ad Nicoclem et Principium Laudis Busi-
ridis folio. Sjec. xv. (1438) on paper

At the end of Cardinal Vitalis' "Postilla super Apocalypsin" is the name of the
scribe and date, thus :

" mccccxxxviii. die secundo mensis Septembris hora xxma. et dimidia Blaxinus

Ferariis Cliristi Gratia librum terminavit."

At the end of the volume there are several theological tracts, entitled
Sphitus Sapiential, De Trinitate, fyc.

297 Ctnsricmi (Raymundi) Poemata Latiua et Italica

4tto. S.ec. xviii. on paper
These poems of this celebrated Jesuit, whom Tiraboschi mentions as an elegant
translator of Theodoretus, are unpublished. Several of them relate to
political events, and to the wars at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Lombardi in his " Storia della Litteratura Italiana nel Secolo XVIII."
(vol. III. p. 453) says, " Compose inoltre il Cunichio molte Elegie, nelle quail
scorgesi Vartificio Catulliano, e la facility, e soavita di Tibullo," and speaking
of his wonderful talent for writing Latin verses observes, that though they
fully merited, " della pubblica luce, cio nulla meno difficile egli a contentarsi,
non voleva stamparle." They were only preserved in manuscript by the
learned Signora Pizzelli, with whom the Reverend Father resided after the
suppression of the Order of Jesuits.

298 Cyppjani (Sancti Caccilii, "Episcopi Carthagineusis et Martyris")

Epistol^e et Opusctjla folio. Sjec. vii-viii. on yellum

This noble manuscript, in the rude Merovingian character, often mixed with
uncial letters, was certainly written before the reign of Charlemagne, during
the most barbarous times of the seventh or at the beginning of the eighth
century, and we believe this to be by far the oldest of the manuscripts still in
existence, containing the writings of this Celebrated Father of the church, for
the vetustissimum, 1305, olim Thuanum deinde Colbertinum, quoted in the
edition of Baluzius (p. cxlvii.) and described under the No. 1647 a of the
Catalogus MSS. Bibl. Regiw Parisiensis, is only of the ninth century, and the
whole of the other manuscripts preserved in the same Library are of a much
more modern date. In the celebrated San Gallen Library there are two
manuscripts of Cyprian, one (No. 89) of the ninth century, and another
(No. 142) of the fifteenth. In the great Medicean Library of Florence, the
oldest manuscript of Cyprian is of the eleventh century (Plut. xvi. Cod. xvi.)
From the Catalogue of Manuscripts at Oxford, by Mr. Coxe, we learn that
the most ancient manuscript of Cyprian's Epistles and Opuscula belongs
to New College (cxxx.) and is not earlier than the twelfth century, the
others being much more modern. Although written in so barbarous an
age, and sometimes partaking of the orthography of the time, this manu-
script, which may perhaps be called the archetypus of all now in existence,
affords a great many various readings. It would require a volume to give a
full idea of their importance and number. A single quotation taken from the
first leaf of the manuscript (which begins with the Epistola de Celerino
confessore, printed in the edition of Baluzius, p. 47), will give an idea of the
rich harvest which might be derived from the collation of this manuscript.
Manuscript. Edition.

" Exultate itaque et gaudite nobis- " Excultate itaque et gaudcto nobis-

cum lectis litteris nostris, quibus ego et cum litteris nostris, quibus ego et collega?
collegae mei qui presentes aderant, refe- mei, qui prrcsentes adfuerant, referinms
rimus ad vos celerinum fratrem nostrum, ad vos Celerinum fratrem nostrum virtu -
virtutibus qua} fecerat moribus cetate tibus pariter et moribus gloriosum clero
usum clero nostro." nostro."

The fly-leaf contains a portion of a fine theological manuscript of the ninth
century, written in four columns, which is a very rare occurrence. With
regard to the numerical signs which are often written in this and the
following manuscripts according to the ancient Greek alphabetical system,
see the note annexed to the following No., as well as No. 7(50 in the present
Catalogue. {See facsimile).

70 THE LIBEI MANTJSCEIPTS.

299 Cxpriani (Sancti Caecilii, "Episcopi Carthaginensis et Martyris")

EpISTOLjE XXIIII.

in the original oak binding folio. S;ec. ix. oisr yellum

One of the most important Patristic Manuscripts ever described in a catalogue,
as regards the purity of the text of an author who has suffered considerable
mutilation by interested editors. It concludes with the following words in
red uncial letters :

CAEC1LI CYPRIANI SENTENTIAE EPISCOPORUM LXXXVII.

The Epistles contained in this manuscript are thus described in the
cotemporary list of contents occupying the reverse of the first leaf: Ad
Donatum — Ad Demetrianum — Ad Furtunatum — De Lapsis — De Opere et
Elemosinis — De Mortalitate — De Patientia — De Dominica Oratione — De
Sacramento Calicis — De Disciplina et Habitu Virginum — De Zelo et Livore
— De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate — Quod Idola Dii non sint — Ad Confes-
sores — Ad Tyberitanos — Ad Antonianum de Coynelio et Novatiano — Ad
Quirinum, Lib. I. — Ad eundem, Lib. II. — Item ad eundem, Lib. III. —
Ad Florentium quem et Puppianum — Ad Romanos — Ad Eucratium de
Istrione — Ad Fidum de mfantibus baptizandis — Sententiae Episcoporum

LXXXVII.

This venerable manuscript written in the finest Carlovingian characters on
the purest vellum (with the headings, rubrics and colophon, in red capital
rustic and uncial letters) consists of about 150 leaves, and deserves
very great attention from the scholars who devote themselves to the study
of the Fathers of the Church. Dr. Routh in his valuable collection of
"Opuscula Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum" (Oxonii, 1840, 2vol. 8vo.) has fully
appreciated the importance of Saint Cyprian's works, of which he re-pub-
lished four from old manuscripts, with great learning and accuracy. It
appears, however, from the Catalogue of Dr. Routh's manuscripts, (sold
July 5, 1855), that his copies being of the xnth, xinth and xivth centuries,
were by several centuries more modern than the two described in the present
Catalogue. By comparing the first of the Opuscula (quod idola dii non sint)
as published by Dr. Routh, with the present manuscript, we find a great many
important various readings, well deserving the attention of learned divines.
We shall point out some of these readings in order to give an idea of the
importance of this manuscript. Firstly we find in this old manuscript the
heading in uncial titles :

" Cecilii Cyprian! de ecclesiag imitate explicit.
Incipit quod idola dii non sint."

although Dr. Routh says (Opuscula, vol. I. p. 329) that —

" Hunc titulum nuspiam reperirem in codicibus manuscriptis."

The good reading, " Hor ita esse Alexander Magnus," adopted by Dr. Routh
(vol. II. p. 331) against Rigaltius and Baluzius is confirmed by this
manuscript. Instead of " Assyrii et Persa? et Grsecos et /Egyptios," as in
Dr. Routh's edition (vol. I. p. 271 et 332) we find in this manuscript,
" Assyrii et Medi et Tyrii et Persas et Grsecos et Persas et iEgyptios," the
name of Tyrii being here quite new. Against Dr. Routh we find in this
manuscript, "Stulhim et credulum vulgus" instead of Stultum et prodigum,,
which scholars will regret to see in Dr. Routh's edition (vol. II. p. 272
et 333). Asa further specimen of the intrinsic importance of this codex
we quote a sentence which Dr. Routh acknowledges (vol. II. p. 274 et 335)
to be quite obscure, and in which this manuscript affords important
variations :

The Manuscript. Dr. Routh's Edition.

" Jllic vocabulo opus est nbi proprietag " Illic vocabulis opus est ubi propriis
vacciilat (sic) insignis multitudo nomi- appellationum insignibus ruultitudo diri-
num dirimenda est Deo. Qui solus est menda est. Deo quo solus est, Dei
Deus vocabulum totum est, ergo unus vocabulum totum (for solum) est, vulgus
est, et ubique ipse diffusus est. Nam et in nmltis Dcum naturaliter confitetur."
vulgus in multis dominum naturaliter
confitentur."

A most important feature of this as well as of the previous manuscript is the

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form of the numerical figures depicted here by the scribes. In order to
avoid the tediousness of the Roman numerical figures, which in several
instances were too complicated and multiplex, the scribe not only used
the Greek alphabet for arithmetical figures, but either through ignorance
or for some other reason, has altered the power and even the shape of
some of them, having in some cases invented perfectly new signs. As an
illustration of this very curious and novel fact in the history of arithmetic,
we may take in this manuscript the Index prefixed to the third book,
ad quirinum, Testimoniorum adversus Judceos, as well as that book itself.
In each the progressive numerical figures run to 117, and are exactly
similar in both. After the peculiar sign (very similar to the modern 9)
which was used by the Greeks to express 90, we find, instead of the usual
Greek letter P for 100, a sign almost of this shape MP, formed by a T
joined with a P. Again, in this manuscript the 1 10 is formed by a C,
which, in the usual Greek system, is used for 200, &c. In the previous
manuscript of the VII — VHIth century, Greek numerical figures are
employed in the first book of the same work, Ad Quirinum, but in the
third book the old Roman figures are used. In both manuscripts
appears the peculiar sign q (of which the tail has been a little
scratched away in the more modern) but in the older it is employed as
usual, for the number 6, while in the second, (a curious fact) it is sometimes
used for the number 7. It is impossible to give here further details upon
this important point, but it is an additional proof of the great want
which began to be felt of some numerical contractions at that time, before
the Arabic or Indian system of numeration had been fully revealed to
Europeans by the celebrated Gerbert (see facsimile). The importance of
this fact will perhaps be more appreciated in England than elsewhere, as it
was generally admitted on the authority of Matthew Paris, even in the
celebrated work of Mr. Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe,
(vol. I. p. 114) that the use of the Greek letters as numerals was first
brought from Athens to England by John Basing as late as the XII Ith
century. Henceforth the subjoined statement of Mathew Paris on the
subject must either be rejected or modified :

" Hie insuper magister Joannes (Basingus) figuras grEecorum numerales er,
earum notitiam et sygnificationem in Angliam portavit et familiaribus suis
declaravit. Per quas figuras etiam litera? representantur. De quibus figuris
hoc maxime admirandum, quod unica figura quilibet nmnerus representatur,
quod non est in Latino vel in Algorismo. (Mattlwus Paris. A.d. 1252).

In fact it is very difficult to understand how it could have been necessary
to bring the use of the Greek letters as numerals from Athens to England,
when we see them used commonly and without any explanation in various
manuscripts described in the present Catalogue, and written in Western
Europe from the seventh to the eleventh century. See also Nos. 229 and
760 in the present Catalogue. (See facsimile.)

72 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

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300 Dama'-al-Masjum 'ala-al-Shikak-al-Bum (or Tears shed over the

Schisms in the Church of Rome), in Arabic
handsomely hound in red sheep 4<to. Sjec. xviii. ON glazed paper

A historical work, beautifully written by a Christian Arab, and highly interesting.
It appears never to have been printed.

301 Dante Alic4hieri la Diyina Commedia

vellum binding folio. Smc. xiv. ON paper

To the lovers of Dante this Manuscript is of the greatest interest, as it exhibits
such various readings as to make us deeply regret that it should only
commence with verse 60 of the third canto of the Inferno, and that the
last leaf of the Paradiso should be missing. This precious Codex, fully
described by Colomb de Batines in his Bibliografia Dantesca (vol. II.
p. 214-16), formerly belonged to the Antaldi family, who considered it one
of their choicest treasures. The late Marquis Antaldo Antaldi published at
Pesaro, in IS 13, for private distribution, a quarto sheet as a specimen of
the various readings contained in the Purgatorio, a brochure which is now
of the greatest rarity and not to be found even in Italy. The copy of it
annexed will serve to convince every reader of the extreme purity of the
text of this manuscript, which appears to have been copied from an earlier one
by a Tuscan, and is entirely free from the Lombardisms which unfortunately
disfigure so many of the ancient manuscripts of Dante. To the English
collector some of these variations are of the highest interest, as they bear
upon the history of his own country as may be seen by the note written on
the cover by the Marquis Antaldi. Their high value is confessed by M. de
Batines, who tells us that, " les variantes qu'on y rencontre lui assurent une
place tres distinyuee parmi les anciens textes de la Divina Commedia et le
rendraient d'un secours vraiment precieux pour quiconque voudrait entreprendre
une nouvelle edition du Po'e'me de Dante."

302 Dante Aliottieri, Inferno, Puroatorio, Paradiso. " Explicit tertia
Cantica Dantis Aldicherii Poeta3 Florentmi que dicitur Paradisus
Amen" folio. $mc. xv. on paper

This very valuable manuscript formed also a portion of the famous Antaldi
Library and, as will be seen by the former possessor's autograph note on the
fly-leaf, was named by himself " Antaldino secondo." In this note the
Marquis Antaldi states that he purchased it from the bookseller Guidotti
in 1814. Guidotti appears to have bought it (see the note at the end
of the manuscript) from Paolo Costa, a name well known in Italian
literature, who obtained it from the library of the Capuchins at Lugo.
Unfortunately the volume is not quite perfect, as it wants the first two
cantos of the Inferno, and a few fragments more in the Purgatorio and
Paradiso. In spite of these imperfections it is undoubtedly of the greatest
intrinsic value. Colomb cle Batines, who was aware of the existence of this
Codex, was unable however to furnish any description of it, although it was
cited by the Marquis Antaldi in the privately printed Tract of Pesaro, 1813,
mentioned in the foregoing lot, and in which he had indubitably proved its
excellence by the valuable various readings he adduced. At the commence-

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ment of the sixteenth century this Manuscript appears to have belonged
to the Busini family of Florence, a fact established by its containing an
autograph sonnet of Ho. Busini, written at the end of the volume and
headed, " Sonetto facto per la Morte di Margarita d'Agnolo Busini j mori
a di xi. Ottobre, 1527-" Busini is a name well known in Florentine history,
and Varchi has made no unprofitable use of the admirable letters of one of
this family, addressed to him during the memorable siege of Florence
about this same period. We may rest assured that any manuscript of
Dante preserved in a family so distinguished and so capable of appreciating
a good text of the Divina Commedia would not be one of slight value. To
give an adequate description of the critical importance, and to point out
the most interesting various readings of this and the previous manuscript
would require almost a volume. With regard to their mercantile value it
will be sufficient to call to remembrance that when these celebrated Dante
manuscripts were sold at Bologna by the heirs of the Marquis Antaldi, they
were priced at several hundred pounds in Signor M. Guarandi's
printed catalogue, in which they were described, and from which they were
ordered and obtained by the gentleman who brought them to England.

303 Dante Alighieri, La Monarchia traducta da Marsilio Ficino — Fran-

cesco da Monte Pulciano (Frate) Predieha fatta, 11 Dec. 1513 —
Poema profetico — Proeetia di Frate Stopo (in ottava rima) —
Proeetia di Ilario Romano... l'Anno 1400 (in versi) — Profetia
di Frate Abadio (ed altre profetie) — Visione di fra Silvestro da
Marrod (1505) — Profetia di S. Francesco — Esamina di Frate
Domenico da Pescia — Al nome del signore Onipotente (copia di
Profetia di Frate Adolo romito nelle Montagne di Luccha l'Anno
1465) — Marsilio Ficino de Deo et Anima al Magnifico Cosmo de
Medici — Villani (G.) parte della Cronaca — Pronostico di Mess.
Ant. Arcoato Ferrarese nello Anno 1480, &c. &c.

4ito. S^:c. xvi. on paper

An interesting collection, written by different hands at the beginning of the six-
teenth century. All these Profezie and political poems, foretelling the ruin of
Italy, show how much the Italians were agitated by the threatening state of
Europe about the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth
century. Some at least of these poems, which seem quite unknown and
unpublished, deserve attention as being indicative of the state of the Italian
mind at that time. Generally they have some resemblance to the ancient Pro-
fezie of Cecco d'Ascoli, quoted by Colucci (Antichita Picene, vol. XIV,
p. 15). At the beginning of this manuscript the following inscription
is written in pencil, giving an account of the way in which it was dis-
covered :

" Fu trovato nel 1824 nov. a Firenze abbattendo un muro con 10 altri libri di niun
pregio. Era legato in velluto cremisi con fermezze d'Argento. Io 1' ebbi cosi„"

Concerning Dante see also Nos. 143, 236, 374, 607, 784, 867, 869, in the
present Catalogue.

304 Dati (Carlo) Lettere ad Alessandro Segni

4ito. S^ec. xvii. (1668) on paper

Seven letters in the autograph of Carlo Dati, the learned editor of the " Prose
Florentine," and other publications. These curious letters generally relate
to bibliographical and private matters.

305 Debentures listed and ordered to be paid in the years 1682-87

folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

Official documents, with the autograph signatures of Sir G. Legge, Lord Dart-
mouth, R. Graham, R. Coytmor, Sir C. Musgrave, Sir B. De Goinrae,
E. Sherburne, W. Bridges, and T. Gardiner.

74 THE LIBEI MANTJSCBIPTS.

306 Deensii, " AbbatisD Averbodii Religiosi," Notse ad Vitam B. Andrea?

Abbatis Averbodiensis Svo. Smc. xviii. on paper

This manuscript is full of curious information relating to the history of the
eleventh and twelfth centuries.

307 De Foe (Daniel) Robinson Crusoe, translated into Arabic

calf gilt 4<to. Smo. xviii. ON paper

A curious proof of the great popularity of this celebrated work.

308 Delicta Juventutis meae Ho. S^o. xviii. on paper

A collection of Miscellanies, in prose and verse, all written in Italian, and
evidently intended for the press.

309 Deorum Genealogia royal folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

A very curious manuscript with pen and ink sketches, the genealogies being
arranged so as to show the deeds of Theseus, Hercules, &c. at one view. It
is very useful for explaining the old Romances of Chivalry.

310 Dicomano. Prospetto delle Produzioni JNaturali della Comune di

Dicomano (in Toscana) royal folio. 1810, on paper

311 Dies ilea cantata dall' altre [Religioni a G-esuiti nella Morte d'alcuni

d'essi in Lisbona (in Latin and Italian verse)

folio. S^ec. xvii. ON PAPER

312 Dieta Salutis. Incipit Liber qui vocatur Via vel Dieta Salutis

4<tO. S^SC. xiv. ON VELLUM

This Manuscript formerly belonged to the Carmelite Library at Dijon. Prefixed
as fly-leaves are eight pages of an old Latin poem on Prosody, also of the
fourteenth century. The Dieta contains a curious chapter, De Luxuria,
in which we read Sexto comparatur luxuria igni Grceco, plainly showing
that the ignis Grcecus (feu gregeois) almost unknown now, was so generally
known at that time as to admit of being quoted as a sort of vulgar com-
parison.

313 Diez (D. Manuel, " Maior Dom del Eey D. Alfonzo Eey darago")

" Libre de Cayalls per mostrar als iovens cavaliers e gentils
homens .... la gran part dela pratieha e dela conexenca dels cavals e
de lurs malaties e gran part de les cures de aquels lo qual libre
compartesch en XVII Capitols," in the original binding

folio. Sjec. xv. partly on yellum and partly on paper

An autograph manuscript in the Valentian dialect, of which a
Spanish version, by Martinez Dampiez, was published at Zaragoza, in 1499-
The rarity of old printed books in the Valentian dialect is excessive, and
as to manuscripts in this country they are almost totally unknown. We
learn from Fuster (Biblioth. Valenciana, vol. I, p. 21), that a manuscript of
this work existed in the Convent of Predicatores at Valentia, and that it
commenced with : " A quest libre de Merchaliala compilat e espirementat lo
noble Mossen Manuel Diez," etc. In the present manuscript we find instead
the following words : " Yo Manuel Diez maior dom," etc., showing that
this is the original manuscript written by the author himself, and, no doubt,
presented by him to his royal master, so renowned as the Patron of Litera-
ture and for his fondness for horsemanship. It is written partly on vellum
and partly on paper, and is adorned with sixty-eight large drawings of
horses and the various bits then in use. At the commencement of the
text is a painting of a knight in armour, his head unprotected save by a
scull-cap, with a tilting lance and shield, on which are depicted the arms
of Aragon, very probably intended as a portrait of the king himself. (See
facsimile.)

314 Dillenii (Jo. Ja.) Historia Muscorum Oxonii, 1741. folio, on paper

\

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315 Diplomata. Donatio facta per Dominam Miriam filiam Alberti de

Borrozio Fratribus S. Francisci Mediolani 5 Aprilis, 1272 — Donatio
facta per Moniales Monasterii de Puzinate Bonifacio VIII, 2 Jan.
1296 — Donatio facta per Antoniolam et Catelinam Sorores de
Vicecomitibus de Pasqualibus de florenis centum 10 Apr. 1385 —
Venditio facta per Begondium et Franciscum de Strata D. Man-
fredo de Barbavariis PapiaD 22 Apr. 1398
in green morocco case various sizes. S^ec. xiii. et xiv. on parchment

Original deeds relating to great historical names like Pope Bonifacius VIII. and
the Visconti family are of rare occurrence.

316 Disphilo (Giovan Carlo, " Cognomento, Pittore Cesenate ") Poesie

Pastorali Svo. Svec. xvi. (28 Dec. 1507) on paper

As a poet as well as a painter the name of Giovan Carlo Disphilo is quite
unknown in Italian literature.

317 Dissertation sur l'Amour des Lettres 4<to. Sjec. xviii. on paper

This is a very curious work, generally well written, but with corrections
undoubtedly in the autograph of the unknown author, who writes ecrivins for
ecrivains, and makes other similar blunders. Two questions naturally
suggest themselves. I. Who was there about the middle of the last century
who could write so well and spell so badly ? As the work is not at all
irreligious, it seems needless to say that its author could not have been
Frederic the Great. II. Was this work written by some more learned than
illustrious personage for a public meeting of the French Academy ?

318 Doanti (Notedia) Narrazioni di diversi Casi seguiti non tanto nella

nostra Citta di Firenze che altrove composte da diversi Autori
Fiorentini e raccolte da me Notedia Doanti

folio. SjEC. xvii. on papfr

A most interesting manuscript, consisting of several hundred pages, and con-
taining, amongst other extracts, an account of the death of the famous martyr
Savonarola; the life of Curzio Marignolli and his Vendetta (Feud) iGOO;
the Feud of N. Compagni; the death of Ginevra Morelli (Cortigiana
Fiorentina detta la Rossina); the execution of Dr. J. Guelfi and others;
the Cenci ; Vita e Morte dell a Caterina Picchena, &c. &c. At the end, in
a different handwriting, are verses entitled " Museo d'Amore," and various
sonnets and Cicalate, in Italian, by Crudeli and others. This volume,
is full of curious and unpublished information, chiefly relating to the
manners and domestic life of the Italians during the sixteenth and seven-
teenth centuries. The depravity of Carolina Picchena, daughter of the
Tuscan minister, Curzio Picchena (whose labours on Tacitus did not prevent
him from writing letters to Galileo on the subject of Astrology) as related
here, is such as to render an extract from it impossible. In the life of
Marignolli, also described in this volume, we find this Florentine nobleman
brought before the secret tribunal of the Inquisition, in the time of Galileo,
because, to revenge some incivility, he had dressed up, as a practical joke,
some asses in monkish attire. The true name of the author was Antonio
de' Dati (a well-known ancient Florentine family) who has used the anagram
of Doanti Notedia. This work is not only unpublished, but was also quite
unknown to Moreni.

319 Dominis (Marci Antonii, " Archiepiscopi Spalatensis ") de Pace Eeli-

gionis Epistola ad Josephum Hallum Archipresbyterum "Wigornien-
sem — Estratto d'una Lettera dell' Archivescovo di Spalatto all' 111.
Conte de G-ondomar, 1622 — Ali2e Epistolje Archiepiscopi Spala-
tensis— Eesponsum J. Hall — Epistola Tho. Covent. et Lichf.
vellum 4<to. Sjeo. xvii. on paper

A very valuable Manuscript of the time, written by an English scribe, and
containing an interesting collection of letters and tracts from or to this

76 THE LIBKL MANUSCRIPTS.

illustrious martyr of the inquisition. According to a note at the beginning
the last Epistola (which is written by Bishop Morton and important) is not to
be found in the printed edition. See also No. 627 in the present Catalogue.

320 Donati (iELii) G-rammatict Urbis Rom^e Edictio secunda

square 4<to. Sjec. ix. on yellum

The various readings exhibited by this venerable Manuscript are well worthy of

attention, as in general they are excellent and in many instances totally

differ from any of the manuscripts collated by Lindemann. As a specimen

we quote :

Manuscript. Lindemann's Edition.

" Sed heec et similia his defectiva exis- " Sed lisec et similia defectiva existi-
timanda sunt. Sunt prseterea neutro- manda sunt. Comrnunia sunt quae r
passiva ut est gaudeo gavisus sum, soleo littera terminantur et in duas formas
solitus sum. Deponentia quce r littera cadunt, patientis et agentis ut scrutor,
terminantur, sed ea amissa Latina non criminor. Deponentia sunt quse r littera
sunt ut convivor couluctor. Communia tenninantur et ea amissa Latina non sunt
sunt qua; r littera terminantur et in duas ut convivor, colluctor."
formas cadunt patientes ac agentes ut
scrutor, criminor."

Among the Prepositions, we have a quotation from Virgil (Mn. ix. 514) :

Manuscript. Lindemann.

" Ferre juvat subter densa testudine " Ferre jubet subter tensa testudine
casus." casus."

and curiously enough the very words given in this manuscript are adopted
from conjecture as his text by Heyne, with the observation, " itaque prcetuli
cum orationem faciat minus duram."

This manuscript is written in middle-size Carlovingian characters, the
rubrics and headings being in rustic capitals. The margins contain a
great variety of ancient annotations of the ninth and tenth centuries, worthy
of attention as they are unpublished. Some of these annotations contain
Greek words (in Latin characters), with translations into Latin. At the end
there is the following colophon : " Incipit edictio secunde Donati gram-
matice urbis Romani,'1 in uncial characters, which, if incipit is not a lapsus
pennce for explicit (this being the second book of the grammar of Donatus,
as printed by Lindemann), may perhaps show that formerly the three books
were not arranged in the same order as they are now. (See facsimile.)

321 Dotti (C.) Satire 4<to. Smc. xviii. on paper

A collection of thirty-seven extremely free poems, filling 512 closely written
pages, entirely prepared for the press.

322 Dottrtna utile per ben confessarsi et commuuicarsi — Passione di Sa

Jacopo — Essemplo di due perfetti amici — Miracoli di San
Giovanni Evangelista — La Vendetta di Cristo fatta per Tito e
Vespasiano, &c. original binding 4to. Sjeo. xv. (1469) on paper

An interesting collection of works, in old and pure Italian, written in 1469.
At the end was added a moral poem called El Savio Romano in Italian verse
with the date of 1517, and which has been printed several times.

323 Du'ai-Saifi, "Imprecations;" A Collection of Arabic (Mohammedan)

Invocations and Talismans for warding off, or bringing on others,
Diseases, Evil Spirits, &c., by different Mussulman Saints

IGmo. S.ec. xviii. on paper
In the Naskh character, unpublished and very curious. It is said that the death
of an enemy is insured by the recitation of these prayers for forty days and
nights consecutively, while fasting and observing certain other austerities.

324 Dupre de Saint-Maure (Nicolas Francois) sur les Mesures des

Anciens folio Sjec. xviii. on paper

An Autograph Manuscript of the very learned author of the " Essai sur les
Monnoies," " Recherches sur la Valeur des Monnoies et sur le Prix des
Grains," and other works. It seems never to have been published.

THE LIBBI MANUSCRIPTS. 77

325 Du Villard de Durand (N.) Extrait d'un Ouvrage sur les Caisses
d' Accumulation et d' Assurances sur la Vie folio. 1816, oisr paper

With the author's autograph signature, and dated " Paris, le 29 Novembre*
1816." At the end is a printed " Notice des Travaux de M. Du Villard.''
This author is well known for his excellent works on annuities, &c.

32G Dwarka Mahatmya, in Sanscrit

green morocco folio. Sjec. xviii. ON paper

We do not know whether, like the Dery Mahatmyam, this is an abstract from
the Markandaya Purana. (See Adehmg, an Hist. Sketch, p. 123).

327 Eames (Johannis) Mechanica sive de Motu Corporum, 2 vols.

8vo. 1776, ON PAPER

By the Rev. John Eames, F.R.S., a well known Professor of Mathematics among
the Dissenters. Very neatly written, with drawings.

328 Eberhardi Betuniensis (nee non Vitalis Blesensis) Poemata, scilicet :

Ovidii Amphitrio ; Laborintus Magistri ; De Arte Bnetorica ; De
Versificatione, cum Hymnis ad B. Virginem, &c. ; Carmen quod
incipit, "Agendum praecor novenaB" 4to. S^ec. xv. on paper

At the end of the first work the manuscript has, " Et sic est finis ipsius Ovidii
Amphitrionis-Ovidius de Amphitrione." We do not find the Amphitrio
quoted in Fabricius amongst the Supposita Ovidii, but it is well known that
the author of this work was Vital de Blois (See Hist. Litt. vol. XXII. p.
41-48). The Laborintus, another poem of 268 lines, " de Miseriis Rectorum
Scholarum," commencing " Pierius me traxit amor jussitque camena," is
attributed by Leyser, who edited it for the first time, to Eberhardus, who
lived in 1212. This manuscript offers several various readings. The first
of the Hymns begins with " Haec Maria, Cecis via, Maris stella, Dei cella,
Me vitare, Et calcare, Mundi ferum, Malo plenum." These Hymns were
printed by Leyser, at the end of the Treatises " de Arte Rhetorica et Versi-
ficatione" attached to the jocose poem on the Miseries of Schoolmasters.
The last two lines of the Peroration commencing :

" Lector condoleas Ebrardi Carminis ullam
Si cariem videas," &c.

are omitted by Leyser.

329 Eisenmann (Herm. Joseph) Excerpta ex Kepleri, Salinae, &c. scriptis

de Musica folio. S^:c. xix. on paper

In the autograph of H. J. Eisenmann, the learned editor of the first Greek
edition of a portion of " Pappi Malhematicae Collectiones."

330 Eisenmann (Herm. Joseph) Extraits et Traductions d'Aristoxene,

Graudence, Bacchius, Theon de Smyrne, Aristide et d'autres Ecri-
vains anciens sur la Musique 4>to. S^ec. xix. on paper

An Autograph Manuscript.

331 Eisenmann (H. J.) Notice Chronologique des Auteurs Grecs et

Eomains (in the author's autograph) folio. Smc. xix. on paper

332 Eisenmann (H. J.) sur les Decouverts des Espagnols et des Portugais

eu l'Amerique, avec des Vies de Sir Erancis Drake et Thomas
Candish (in the author's autograph) folio. Sjec. xix. ON paper

333 Eisenmann (H. J.) Chronologie pour l'Histoire de l'Europe et Histoire

des Revolutions de l'Europe et de l'Origine des Erancois

folio. SiEC. xix. ON PAPER

In the author's autograph. See also No. 724 in the present Catalogue.

78 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

334 Elizabeth, "Royne d'Angleterre," ses Edictz et Ordonnances

politiqties faictes en son dernier Parlement 1562, traduictz en
Langue Francoyse avec Annotations
blue morocco, gilt edges 4to. SiEC. xvi. (1564) on paper

In a beautiful handwriting', with illuminated capitals in gold and colours. A
Latin Dedication, " Sebastiano Laubespinseo Regis Consiliario Lemovicen-
sique Episcopo," is dated " Tert. Idus Septemb. 1564," and this is un-
doubtedly the presentation copy to that Bishop. The notes are curious
and interesting, and contain very valuable information relating to English
families in France. See, for instance (p. 53), the case of Sorcery relating
to G. Throgmorton, &c. This manuscript formerly belonged to the Library
of the Jesuits in Paris.

335 Enchiridion de Argutiis — Lusus Elucubrationum Poeticarum — Ora-

tionis absolute Analisis Mo. S^ec. xvii. on paper

A valuable work evidently by an Italian author, as some of the illustrations
are in that language. The Lusus (with specimens) treat " de Epigram-
mate; de Dialogismo; deserpentino Epigrammate; de Carmine concordante
et correllativo ; de Acrosticho ; de Ritmo et Antisono Carmine ; de Enig-
mate : de Retrogrado, giving as an example one addressed to Henry VIII
to be read backwards :

Conjugium tibi Rex fecondent Numina longo
Tempore nee sterilis sit tibi progenies ;

De Carmine Diabolico ; and De Carmine Italo-Latino. Of the last sort of
singular poems the author gives several instances. One of them com-
mences : " In solo aprico in spaciosa arena — Irriga me Etrusca Latina vena."

336 Enfant Sage. Cy fine lenfant sage a trois ans imprime a Rouen par

Richard Goupil Mo. S;ec. xvi. on paper

Notwithstanding the colophon, imprime' d, Rouen, no trace of such an edition is
to be found in the excellent Manuel of M. Brunet. This is a dialogue,
in old French, between an Emperor (Adrian) and the " Enfant sage."

337 England. Advertisseinens comme les Anglois ont acoustume estre

traictes en Guyenne et cydevant et comme ils y sont traictes a
present et aussi comme les Francoys sont traictes en Angleterre

folio. SiEC. xvi. on paper

A curious document, not quite on the side of free trade. Amongst other things

we find : "Item plus nul merchant de France ne peult acheptera Londres,

a Bristol ni autres villes d'Angleterre nulle merchandise sinon des

bourgeois."

338 England. Memoires snr la Religion Anglicane — Sommaire de tous

les Actes des Parlemens depuis le Schisme jusqu' a l'entiere sepa-
ration de l'Angleterre — Ecrit de quelques Fanatiques (W. Ker,
J. Gibb, D. Jamieson et J. Young) en date du 11 May, 1681, dont
1' Original est entre les mains du Greffier du Conseil prive d'Ecosse

4to. Smc. xvii. on paper
Three curious Manuscripts, apparently in the same autograph.

339 England. Treatise to prove England by its Trade and Commerce

equivalent in Wealth and Strength to a far greater Territory
(France, &c), that Taxes rather Increase than Diminish the Com-
monwealth, that England has Stock sufficient to drive the Trade of
the whole World, &c. &c. folio. S^c. xvii. on paper

This valuable Treatise appears to have been written in the reign of Charles II
when " the buildings of London (since the Great Fire) grow great and glorious
the American Plantations imploy 400 sails of ships, money under statute
interest, materialls for buildings (even oaken timber) little the dearer, some
cheaper, for the rebuilding of London." The portions relating to Ireland,
Scotland, and especially to the American colonies, shew that the author was
well skilled in Political Economy, and are of considerable interest even for
the present day.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 79

340 England. Descente en Angleterre

folio. S^eo. xviii. (1798) on paper

This extraordinary document, dated " Paris le cinq Germinal an 6 de la Repub-
lique Francaise," is headed " Armee d' Angleterre," and shows that even at
that time the design of an Invasion of England with 90,000 men was more
seriously contemplated than has ever been imagined, for here we have
the " Organisation du Service general de V Ambulance a la Suite de V Armee
pour la Descente en Angleterre" with the names of the employes, the neces-
sary stores, &c. based upon calculating 15,000 men sick at the least.
Concerning England, see also Nos. 305, 1099-1102 in the present Catalogue.

341 Epistolaris Institutio 4to. S^ec. xvii. ON paper

A very learned Treatise on Letter-writing, with full directions for their construc-
tion, &c.

342 Epistolarium solemnitatum totius anni folio. Smc. xv. ON veli/um

This Service Book contains " Epistolce decantatai in solemnitatibus totius anni"
written in very large characters by an Italian scribe, and has the capital
letters flourished and richly illuminated in gold and colours. Manuscripts
of the " Epistolarium," being generally executed for cathedrals only, are
of uncommon occurrence.

343 Epistolarium per totius Anni Circulum secundum Curiam Eomanam

folio. SiEC. XV. ON VELLUM

A very elegant Manuscript of this Service Book, having the first initial illumi-
nated in gold and colours. The other capitals exhibit good specimens of
flourishing with a pen in coloured inks.

344 Equitable Assurance Society. Report read by Mr. Morgan 10 Dec.

1834, and other Papers respecting the Society
sewed 4<to. S^c. xix. on paper

345 Erasme (D.) Probleme eaict en Eorme de Dtalogue au quel est

introduict Curio et Alphius traduyct de Latin en Langaige
Erancoys a haulte et puyssante Dame et Princesse Madame Jehanne
de Navarre (par Jehan Breche) calf 12mo. Sjso. xvi. ON vellum

An Autograph and apparently unpublished manuscript of the celebrated poet, John
Breche (author of Le Manuel Royal en Prose et en Rime, and other works)
who was highly praised for his talents by John Boucher of Poictiers. This
was the copy presented by the author to Joan of Navarre, the only daughter
of Henry of Navarre, by Margaret his wife (authoress of the Heptameron),
sister to Francis I., and has her arms, richly emblazoned in gold and colours,
prefixed. The Dedication is in verse.

346 Espana. Tres Oraciones del Estado de Hespana a D. Er. Gomez de

Sandoval y Roxas Duque de Lerma, &c. folio. S^eo. xvii. on paper

A State Document of considerable interest and importance, in which will be found,
" Como se ha de hacer guerra con Inglaterra," and " Modo de fabricar
la Armada y provechos della"

347 Este. Privilegi Estensi in Tassoni 4to. SiEC. xvii. on vellum

A Transcript from an important document of the year 1487, relating to the grants
and gifts from the D'Este Ducal family to that of the Tassoni. At the
beginning it is stated that as it is a great virtue to be liberal, for that
reason the Duke Ercole presents Giulio Tassone with an immense estate,
empowering him even with the gladii potestate, or the right to have his
tenants executed.

348 Eucharistie. Lettres de M. M. Denis, Viogue, Desgabets, Bertet,

Eabry, Malleval et autres sur la Philosophic de M. Descartes
appliquee au Sujet du S. Sacrement, avec les Responses. Aussi les
deux Lettres que M. Descartes a escrittes au R. P. Mesland, Jesuite,

80 THE LIBKI MANUSCBIPTS.

en l'Annee 1645 ou environ, touchant l'Estre du Corps de Jesus
Christ au S. Sacrement et qui ont servy de Eondement a tout cet
ouvrage, ruled with red lines, old French red morocco, gilt edges

8vo. Sjec. xvii. on papee

Written in a French running hand, with numerous corrections in the auto-
graph of the author of the Replies. It is well known that when Bossuet
disapproved of the ingenious Theory of Descartes respecting the Real
Presence, Dom Desgabets, one of the most learned Benedictines of his
time, endeavoured to amend what was considered vicious, and that when
his attempt was censured by his superiors and the famous Nicole, he
retracted. Although the name of the author of this manuscript nowhere
appears, in all probability this collection was made by Desgabets himself,
who has altered and improved the manuscript throughout, and (a curious
fact) made alterations even in the very letters of Descartes copied at the
end. For the history of Cartesianism this is a very interesting volume.

349 Euclidis Geometeia cum Commento Campari (Novariensis)

large folio. SiEC. xv. oisr vellum
A splendid manuscript, finely written in Italy on pure vellum, with illuminated
capitals and large margins. The diagrams are beautifully executed, and the
numerical figures are according to the Arabic system. Manuscripts of this
work are exceedingly scarce, only one being described by Hsenel (at Dijon),
and three only being mentioned in the great "Catalogus Bibl. Reg. Paris."
It is well known that this translation of Euclid, long attributed to Cam-
panus, was reclaimed by Tiraboschi and Andres for an English author,
Ad e lard of Bath, called also Adelard the Goth, a Benedictine monk
during the first portion of the twelfth century, who was one of the first
translators of scientific works from the Arabic, which language he had
studied during his travels amongst the Mohammedans. Concerning the
author of this translation, which differs considerably from that which is
contained in the No. 665 of the present catalogue, see the work of M. Chasles
(Apercu, p. 511) so full of interesting information, as well as the classical
Introduction of Mr. Hallam (vol. I, p. 115), and the excellent History of
the Inductive Sciences (vol. I. p. 258) by the Rev. W. Whewell. (See also
Andres, Origine, etc. vol. II, p. 112.)

350 Euclide, Libro secondo dimostrato per Analisi, Geometria Pratica e

Trattato delle Sezzione Coniche 4ito. S^ec. xviii. on papee

351 Euclid's Elements, Book I to VII, XI and XII, with Diagrams

2 vols. 4ito. &ec. xviii. on papee

352 Eusebii Ceemonensis, " Jeronimi sanctissimi Discipuli," Epistola

ad Damasum, "Episcopum Portuensem," De Laudibus Beati
Jeeonimi et Epistola de Morte gloriosi Jeronimi — Augustlni (S.)
Epistola ad Cirillum Episcopum Jerosoliinitanum de Laudibus
B. Jeronimi — Cieilli Patriarchs Jerosolimitani ad B. Augustinum
de Miraculis B. Jeronimi et primo de ejus Obitu— Lieee Informa-
tionum Viciorum et Virtutum secundum Alanum

folio. SiEC. XV. OjST papee

Written by an Italian scribe, with the following notice at foot of the first page :

" Iste liber est Congregationis Sanctce Justince de Padua deputatus ad usum
Monaclwrum S. Marci de Ferrara signatus numero 38° "

It is well known that the library of Santa Giustina was most celebrated for
the importance of the manuscripts it contained, and this volume affords a
proof that it deserved such celebrity. The Liber in for mationum Viciorum ct
virtutum contained in this volume, is mentioned by Fabricius (Bibl. Lat.
Med. vol. I. p. 37,) as one of the unpublished or lost works of " Alanus
de Insulis," under the title of " Summa de conflictu vitiorum et virtutum."
Respecting this Alanus, see also No. 20 in the present Catalogue.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 81

353 Etttiiopii liber de Kegibus Eomanorum, et de Origiue Imperii

vellum 4*to. S^c. xiv-xv. on yellum

Finely written by an Italian scribe, with the initial capital richly illuminated.
Scholars and historians are well acquainted with all the discussions which
have taken place respecting the work of Eutropius, an author of whom so
little is known, and whose writings have been so many times altered, inter-
polated and increased (at the request, as is 'stated by Leo Marsicanus, of
Adelperga, the daughter of Desiderius, King of the Langobards) by Paulus
Diaconus, alias Warnefridus, or, and very likely and, by other anonymous
authors. We cannot expatiate here on a question which has occupied the
attention of the most celebrated men, such as Muratori, Gruter, Fabricius, &c.
but shall be satisfied by stating, that while classical scholars made every
exertion in order to free the original text of the ancient writer from all inter-
polations, men who devoted themselves to the study of history considered
with much more attention and respect, additions which contain such a
fund of information connected with the history of the Goths and other bar-
barous nations. The original (or what purports to be the original work of
Eutropius) ends with the year 1119, ab urbe condita. The present manu-
script, which contains throughout a great number of important various
readings and additions, has a continuation to the death of Totila, a.d. 552.
In every respect this is an interesting manuscript,

354 Evangelia IV, Greece

morocco extra, by J. Clarice 4ito. Svec. xi. on telltjm

This noble manuscript, containing the four gospels with the Canons and fine
Greek numerical notes, is quite perfect. The characters, in red and black,
are large and beautiful, with some ornaments in the old Byzantine style.
No finer manuscript of the Evangelia has appeared in a catalogue in Eng-
land for many years. With the exception of some liturgical books and
fragments of the Scriptures of the eleventh century, the Meerman collec-
tion, so celebrated for ancient manuscripts, chiefly Greek, had not a single
manuscript of the Evangelia which could compete with the present one.
On comparing a few chapters of this manuscript with Mill's edition of the
New Testament (Oxonii, I707,in folio) we found that the text of our manu-
script is exceedingly pure, and that it contains some various readings which
are not quoted by Mill. The Canones, at the end, also differ from the
Eusebian. Some small additions are in the manuscript which are not to
be found in the printed editions. The Capitulatio of St. Mathew is not at
the beginning but at the end of the volume. In this Capitulatio the title of
the second chapter instead of being, as in Mill, riepi rwu avaip&evTwv Uaidlccv
is in the present manuscript TIzpl ruv auaipeSevTow vrjwiui/, which will show
an instance of the variations in the readings contained in this codex.
This manuscript in the handwriting, as well as in the ornaments and the
capitals, bears a very close resemblance to the celebrated Codex Ebnerianus
of the New Testament, supposed to be of the eleventh and even of the tenth
century, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (see for instance the capital E
at the beginning of St. Luke) of which a facsimile is to be found in
M. Shaw's splendid work (Illuminated Ornaments, plate V). By compar-
ing this manuscript with the facsimiles given by Montfaucon in his
Paleographia Graca, and by Zanetti and Bongiovanni in their Catalogue of
the St. Marc Library at Venice, we find that it bears a strict resemblance
(for instance, in that protracted form of the Greek letter a, which is men-
tioned by Montfaucon as a proof of great antiquity) to several manuscripts
described in those classical works as being of the tenth or eleventh century.
(See facsimile).

355 Evangelia quatuoe. Armenice

native binding, tooled small 4ito. Sjec. xv-xvi. on vellum

A magnificent gem, containing besides coloured and emblazoned delineations
of the four Evangelists, sixteen large and numerous small paintings,
illustrating the various events of the Gospel narratives, illuminated calendars
and title pages, &c, all in the best style of Eastern Art. (See facsimile).

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356 Evangelia IV, Lattice, cui pejemittuntue Canokes Euseeii.

Acceclunt Capitulaee Evangeliorum de Circulo Anni; Bene-

dictiones Vestium; Oeacio quando abbordinatur in Monasterio

et Conseceationes Manuum et Alia

calf folio. SiEO. ix. of vellum

One of the finest Manuscripts of the Gospels ever offered
for sale, quite complete, and in the highest state of
preservation. The Canons of Eusebius, written within delicately
painted columns, supporting arches, occupy sixteen pages. These columns
in several instances are enriched with caryatides at the base and capital,
representing figures and heads drawn with no mean skill, in the ancient
Roman style. It would fill a volume to describe minutely this noble
manuscript, on the fly-leaf of which some learned ' man (probably a
Benedictine) of the last century has written a long and interesting
note, in which is very properly remarked, that as on the 1st of No-
vember the Capitulare (at the end of this manuscript) only mentions
S. Csesarius, without any allusion to the toussaint (the feast of All Saints)
which was established throughout all Christendom in the year 835, this
manuscript must have been written previous to that period, and truly
all things concur to prove that this manuscript is cotemporary with the
commonly called Alcuin Bible, now in the British Museum, which
Passavant maintained had been offered to Charlemagne himself. The
sixteen pages of the Canones are entirely written in the finest uncial
character, in red and black; and the rubrics, headings, &c. through-
out the volume, are all either in uncial or rustic characters, the title pages
of the different Gospels being written in long capitals (red and green),
like those of the Roman inscriptions. The text of the Gospels is generally
written in the most beautiful small Carlovingian characters. The
Capitulare, so important for the history of the Liturgy, is partly written
in the same Carlovingian characters, and partly in the finest small uncial
or rustic characters, occupying twenty-four full pages. The Benedictiones,
&c. at the end seem to have been written by another hand, but during the
same ninth century. Either from the beginning, or at least at a very late
period, this manuscript appears to have belonged to some French monastery
in Lorraine, as rents due from various places in that territory are entered on
the last two pages of the volume in a handwriting of the tenth century.
This last piece is very important for the geography of Western France dur-
ing that period, as a great number of localities are mentioned, and there is
every reason to believe that this volume formerly belonged to the Abbaye de
Luxueil. The whole of the numerical figures (several thousand in numbers)
written at different periods throughout this manuscript, are in accordance
with the Roman alphabetical system of numeration. (See facsimile.)

357 EvANGELIA IV, LATINE CUM PE2EEATIONE B. HlEEONYMI

folio. S^EC. ix. ON VELLUM

The illumination prefixed to the Gospel of St. Mark fills up the entire page, and
is a fine specimen of Carlovingian or Byzantine art. Most of the initials
are in letters of gold, and prefixed to each Gospel there is a page written in
golden capitals. The handwriting, including a great variety of characters
(uncial, rustic, capital, &c.) is of the finest Carlovingian description, and on
that account, as well for the illumination, this manuscript also bears a close
resemblance to the celebrated Alcuin Bible of the British Museum. The
large portrait of St. Mark, in gold and different colours, is properly speaking
a painting upon vellum instead of an illumination, and offers one of the
noblest specimens of Carlovingian art. The whole of the numerical figures
are according to the Roman system. At the end there is a " Capitulare
Evangeliorum anni circuli," also of the ninth century, consisting of eleven
leaves and containing interesting information relative to liturgical history,
with some curious formula?, "Pro ubertate pluvise " — " Pro sterilitate plu-
via? " — " Pro commotione gentium," &c. (See facsimile).

THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS. 83

358 Evangelia IV, Latine Mo. SiEC. x-xi. on yelltjm
A beautiful specimen of the caligraphy of the eleventh century, with an elegant

initial letter to each gospel, and a full length delineation of its writer.
This venerable manuscript appears to have belonged, in the year 1314, to the
Church of St. Mary, in Walbeck, as is apparent from a statute of " Ludolfus
dei gracia Decanus totius Walbicensis Ecclesise," amongst other " Statuta
et Consuetudines " of that Church, written on the blank leaves of the
volume. Several of the blank leaves have served as a Terrier for the
monastery, and others are filled with legal documents (several in German
respecting the Jus Advocatia? in Esbiinne, 1388) connected with the
Deanery of Walbeck. The special interest attached to this manuscript is
derived from the illuminations and initial letters which, as will be seen
by the fac-similes, are quite in the style of the first monuments of the
primeval Christian art at Rome, having several large figures surrounded by
the most exquisite borders. An additional value is imparted to these illu-
minations by the fact that, a few initials excepted, they are in an unfinished
state, and as the work has been conducted to different degrees, they show
the entire process employed by the artists of that time in illuminating manu-
scripts. A long description would be required to give a full idea of these
half completed illuminations, which are valuable also for their curious
details, exhibiting for instance the shape of the book and the roll, both
used for manuscripts, in the same drawing, and even showing that quill
pens were employed by the scribes at a period anterior to that fixed by
some archaeologists for their first introduction. (See facsimile.)

359 Evangelia Occueeentia pee TOTTJM Annum, old Venetian morocco,

original ornamented binding 8vo. S^o. x-xi. on yelltjm

This exquisite gem is written on the purest vellum, with nume-
rous CAPITALS ILLUMINATED IN GOLD, SILVER AND COLOURS. The

frontispiece, representing the Salvator Mundi, is a beautiful specimen of
early art as practised by the Greek artists in Italy, and the first leaf,
written in gold and colours, is also one of the most elegant specimens of
illuminated capitals ever offered for sale. The volume, written in a small
elegant Carlovingian character, is in the most perfect state of preservation,
and so is the binding, covered with blind tooling. All the capitals,
throughout the volume, are in gold, and the whole of the new paragraphs
are embellished with silver or gold ornaments on the margins. The
headings are in small rustic capitals, and the various rubrics of the
different Gospels consist of two or three lines of gold or silver uncial letters,
beautifully ornamented. At the end of this truly invaluable manuscript is
an inscription of the sixteenth century, stating that this volume was pre-
sented, in 1544, to a church or monastery of S. Nicholas. (See facsimile).

3G0 Evangelia Dominicalia — Nicolai de Liea Questio (1381) — Epi-
tapium Senecae et Epistolae ad Lucilium — Augustinus de Anchona
super Epistolis Canonicis, &c.
in the original binding, from the Carthusian Nunnery at Erfurdt

Mo. SiEC. xiv. et xv. on papee
Augustinus de Anchona (Ord. Erem. S. Augustini), was the author of the cele-
brated treatise " De Ecclesiastica Potestate," printed several times during
the fifteenth century. This work, " Super Epistolis Canonicis," is not
quoted by Fabricius amongst the works of Augustinus de Anchona.

361 EvANGELIAEIUM folio. &MC. XV. ON VELLUM

Written by an Italian Scribe in double columns in large characters. It is
valuable for the history of the liturgy, as there is at the end an index
containing the Evangelia for each day.

362 Evangelia decantanda in Sollemnitatibus totius Anni

folio. Smc. XV. ON VELLUM

This Service-Book, with the preliminary chants and prayers, is of great

rarity caused, no doubt, by the small number of copies that would

be required by Abbots for Cathedral purposes. This copy was probably

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84 THE LIBEI MANTJSCEIPTS,

executed for the Congregation of St. Justina de Padua, as it contains a
prayer to that Virgin. It is written in large missal characters, with the
rubrics in red, and is adorned with painted initials of elegant design,
two of them richly illuminated in gold and colours. At the beginning there
is a Latin Hymn, with musical notes (written for supra ac tenor) followed by
several orationes also with musical notes.

363 Exceepta de Libro Macrobii — Peoyeebia Phylosophorum — Exceepta

Epistolarum B. Hyeronimi — Exceepta de Libro Apuleii — Ex-
ceepta de Libro Epistolarum Plinii Secundi — Exceepta ex Cice-
rone, Aulo Gellio, Plauto, Seneca, Enodio, &c. &c.

SVO. SMC. XV. ON YELLUM
A very interesting manuscript, finely written by an Italian scribe, and containing
a great number of curious tracts, amongst which is the " Epistola Martini
Episcopi ad Mironem Regem," which was so little known that D'Achery
gave it again in his Spicilegium as unpublished, although it had been
printed in 1544 by E. Vinetus. Manuscripts of even a portion of Aulus
Gellius are so scarce that Haenel only found ten of them in all the libraries
he visited, six of which are at the Escurial in Spain. The extracts in this
manuscript are exceedingly valuable, as they afford a great nnmber of
important various readings. As an instance we give here the beginning
of the Fragment of Aulus Gellius, as it stands in the manuscript and as
it is printed in Valpy's edition (lib. ix. cap. ii.)

Manuscript. Edition.

" (H)erodes consularis atticus, vir " Ad Herodem Atticum, consularem
ingenio ameno et greca facundia Celebris virum ingenioque amoeno et Grseca fa-
palliatum quempiam et crinitum barbam cundia celebrem adiit, nobis prassentibus,
ad pubem usque dimissam petentem et palliatus quispiam et crinitus, barbaque
dari interrogabat quisnam esset. At prope ad pubem usque porrecta ; ac
ille vultu sonituque vocis objurgatorio ; petiit aes sibi dari ds &provs. Turn
pbilosophuin se esse dicit." Herodes interrogat quisnam esset. At-

que ille, vultu sonituque vocis objur-
gatorio, philosophum sese esse dicit."

364 Eabeitii (Sebastiani, "Tigurini") De Compositione Astrolabii Liber

unus a T). M. Vito Ardijseo Hheto publice Basileae nunc privatim a
D. Samuele Pellicano traditus et auctus 1551. Astrolabii quoque
usus (qui multiplex est) hoc libro continetur — Compositio et usus
sphserse a planetis pretusse (a Jos. Simlero) — Fabeicatio sphaerse —
Eabeicatio horologiorum — De Quadeantibtts — Compendium geo-
graphic— Beschbibung des Wellt-Spiegels, ivith 112 illuminated
figures (including map of America) 4*to. Sjec. xvi. (1551) on papee

An autograph manuscript of S. Fabritius. On one of the pages is the following
inscription : " Finivit scribere Seb. Fab. 24 die Septembris, cum D. Josias
Simlerus nuptias cum Bullingeri filia celebrabat 1551." We do not find any
mention of Seb. Fabritius, Pellicanus, or V. Ardijseus in Lalande's Bibliogra-
phic Astronomique. This important collection, full of volvelles and figures
of ancient astronomical instruments, is very interesting. At the beginning
of the Compositio Sphaerse we find written by another hand, " D. Nicolaus
Copernicus in Priissen." Simler was the son-in-law of the celebrated
Henry Bullinger, whose life he wrote, as well as a Treatise de Principiis
Astronomise, and other works relative to Switzerland, one of which, the
Vallesice Descriptio, has often been reprinted. No notice has been taken of
this work on the Sphere by any of his numerous biographers, and as it is
not mentioned by Lalande, who quotes the De Principiis, we may safely
presume it to be unpublished.

3G5 Fagioli (Gio. Batta) L'Astuto Balordo Commedia (in Prosa)

4ito. 1732, on papee

An ancient transcript, with autograph corrections, of this celebrated Dramatist,
whose comedies, remarkable for their burlesque humour and pleasant
style, have been printed several times. In this play one of the parties
speaks in the Contadinesco dialect.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 85

366 Fagitjoli (Gio. Batta) Avertimenti (Poetici) dati alia sua Signora

Consorte, vellum folio. S^:c. xviii. ox paper

At the end are other verses by this celebrated comic poet, including one " In
Lode del Bue."

367 Falconry. Art et Science de la Faulconerye

in the original stamped binding 4<to. Smc. xv. on paper

The volume terminates with the ordinance of Philip the Good, dated 26 August,
1459, " pour la Redaction des Coutumes du Duche de Bourgogne." French
manuscripts on falconry are very scarce ; the present work, which the author
states is taken from three falconers whose names are mentioned, is of the
time of the Crusades, and seems quite unknown. At the end of the Art
there is the name of Clerget, a former owner of the book in the fifteenth
century.

368 Farnese (Alessandro) Lettere al Conte Carlo di Mansfelt

folio. 1586, ON PAPER

Seven letters, with autograph signatures and seals, from the celebrated Alexander
Farnese, Duke of Parma and Placentia, whilst General of the Spanish
forces and Governor in Flanders, the whole of them addressed to Count
Charles de Mansfeld, and containing interesting information relating to the
war in Flanders.

369 Farolei (Giuseppe) Esemplari per imparare a scrivere

folio. 1774, ON PAPER

Specimens of caligraphy by the celebrated writing master of Florence, Giuseppe
Farolfi, with several fine drawings in ink. This manuscript contains curious
instructions about the different modes of writing and addressing letters to
persons in various social positions.

370 Farriery. Libro de Menescalcaria composto et sperimentato per il

Mco Sor Giovaunotto de Conostavola et il Mco Sor Alex. Capoccia
Barolitani mdlyiiii. 4<to. Smc. xvi. (1559) on paper

With the book-plate of Christophorus Baro a Wolckenstain et Rodnegg, 1594.
Neither Tiraboschi or Toppi mention these authors, and this curious
work seems quite unknown. At the beginning there is a small treatise
upon the twelve signs of the Zodiac. The Neapolitan horses were cele-
brated during the sixteenth century, and everything connected with their
management is worthy of attention.

371 Ferishta (Muhammad Kasim. Hindu Shah) Tarikh-i- Gujarat, or His-

tory of Gujarat, in Persian folio. Sjec. xviii. on paper

Beautifully written. A very correct copy of the Work, obtained by collating
several manuscripts by the aid of the learned Munshi Mir Khairat 'All.
This History of Gujarat is a portion only (the 4th book) of the general
History of India by the same author, which was lithographed at Bombay
in 1831.

372 Ferishta (Muhammad Kasim Hindu Shah) " Tarikh-i-Firishtah "

native binding folio. Smc. xvii. on paper

Beautifully written and very correct. This is another portion of the general
History of India, by Ferishta, who is considered the best of native writers
on the subject, and who is deservedly admired, both for the elegance of his
style and for his veracity. For a full account of this valuable work, see
the truly invaluable "Biographical Index to the Historians of Mahom-
medan India," by Mr. H. M. Elliot (vol. I, p. 310). It was originally
finished anno Hegirae 1008, (A.D. 1606), and subsequently brought down
to at least the year 1615.

86 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

373 Fernandez (D. Bernardo, "Naturale della Citta di Malaga") Astri-

loquio Universale. Chiromanticum Opusculum. Metoposcopia
vellum Mo. S^:c. xvii. oisr paper

This work of Fernandez relates to meteorology, navigation, astronomy, &c.
The Opusculum contains a great number of well executed drawings of
heads, by an Italian artist of the seventeenth century. All three works
seem to be unpublished.

374 Ferrara. Hie liber sive Prothocollum est mei Bellini de Pregostinis,

Notarii Publici Ferrariensis super quo deseribuntur et annotabuntur,
manu mea propria succincte breviterque, omnia qusecunque Justitia
eujuscunque generis existant, de quibus ego idem Bellinus rogatus
facio prsesenti Millio Domini 1484, 1485, 1486

4to. Smc. XV. ON PAPER

The original autograph protocol of Bellini, public notary of Ferrara, in which
with his own hand, he has copied every document drawn up by him in his
official capacity. Prefixed is a list of its contents. This manuscript, in
which several celebrated artists and ancient families are named (Ales-
sander de Maro Miniator, Nobilis Gulielmus de Carpi, Galvani, Trotti,
&c.) is important both for the knowledge of the state of rural property in
Italy during the fifteenth century, and for the study of " verba infimse
Latinitatis," since numerous words like Murator, Tenuta, Cimator, &c.
are to be found therein. But the most curious document is one which
occurs at folio 81, relating to the descendants of the great Dante Alighieri,
and containing a " Promissio de tradendo dote Dominice filie Io. Francisci
de Aldigeriis, &c." (a.d. 1486). It is well known that the name of Dante's
family has been written in different ways, and that the Latin form is
de Aldiglierus or Aldigeriis. (See Traversari Ejnstolce, vol. I, p. cdxxxvii.)
Franciscus was a christian name of the family, and a Francesco, author of
a Commentary on Vitruvius, is quoted by Litta in the Famiglie celebri
Italiane (fascicolo xxiv).

375 Ferrara. Raccolta di Memorie spettanti al Comune di Ferrara (delle

Prerogative ed i Nomi degli Agenti e degli Ambasciatori in Roma
per Ferrara ; Notizie spettanti all' Ospitale, alia Chiesa Nuova, ai
Conservatorii dei Medici dei Poveri, alia Zecca, ai Magistrati
Comunali, ed altri Istituti che hanno relazione col Comune)

folio, ^mg. xviii. on paper

It would take almost a volume to give an adequate idea of the contents of this
interesting manuscript which is replete with curious unpublished informa-
tion relating to the history and statistical description of Ferrara.

376 Ferrttcci (Francesco) Vita di folio. S^c. xix. on paper

A transcript of the original manuscript in the Eiccardi library at Florence.
This is an important anonymous work, consisting of about 150 pages,
most probably written shortly after the death of that glorious defender of
the Florentine BejDublic.

377 Fieenze, Cronica della Badia Fiorentina

folio. SiEC. xv. (1418-1460) on paper

An original and unpublished work ; very curious, as will be apparent from the
subjoined beginning :

" Nel 1418 Messer Niccolo Guaschoni abbate di questo monasterio essendo
anchora assai giovane, ando al concilio di Costantia. Dove posto da parte ogni
timore di Dio ad ogni vitio et illecebra si dette. In casa sua conversationi, giuochi,
armeggerie et omnigene inhonesta regnavano. A tanta temerita venne che con
Sigismundo Serenissimo Re de' Romani hebbe tractato di pigliare di nocte tempo e
Cardinali et fargli annegare nel flume."

This extraordinary chronicle proceeds to narrate the conversion of that
great sinner, and then to relate the life of the celebrated Beato Gometio, to
enumerate the new buildings, and to notice the Greek and Latin manu-
scripts, the pictures, &c. collected in that famous Abbey, in which was pre-

THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS. 87

served the manuscript of Longus, rendered so well known a few years ago
by the controversy respecting the passage which P. L. Courier obliterated.
Letters of Popes, and various other documents, add to the value of tins
unpublished and unknown chronicle, which is not mentioned by Moreni,
and which, like the two following manuscripts, seems to have remained
unknown to the learned contributors to the Archivio Storico, published at
Florence by the indefatigable M. Vieusseux, and which is an indispensable
supplement to the great collection of Muratori.

378 Firenze. Conti dei Priore et Capitani della Compagnia de Sancto

Piero Martire della Chiesa di Sancta Maria Novella di Firenze
(1462-1491) folio. S^c. xv. on paper

Most of these accounts are audited and signed, " Ego Baldouinus Dominus de
Baldouinis Notarius" &c. or " Ego Joannes Dominus de Holandrinis Notarius
dictai Capitanke" &c. In these historical documents the names of the
most celebrated Florentine families (Strozzi, Bardi, &c.) frequently occur.

379 Florentia. Petitio Fr. Joannis Fratrum Ordinis Praedicatormn in

Conventu Florentino Prioris totiusque Conventus ad F. Nicolaum
Ostiensium et Veletrorum Episcopum contra Clerum Florentimim— -
Copia Positoruni Capituli et Cleri Florentini contra Fratres Prsedi-
catores — Interdictio et Excomunicatio Cleri Florentini, cum JNomi-
nibus excornunicatorum — Commissio Nerii Subdelegati

folio. S^c. xiv. (1331) on paper

A very interesting collection of the original documents respecting the famous
dispute between the friar preachers and the regular clergy of Florence.
Kespecting Florence see also Nos. 1105-1110 in the present Catalogue.

380 Flori (Lucii Anngei) Historian Eomanse Libri IV.— Plinii (potius

Aurelii Victoris) de Eebus prseclare gestis Virorum illustrium Liber
— Cornelii Nepotis Libellus de Vita Pomponii Attici finit feliciter
ex mendoso exernplari transcriptus 4>to. Sjec. xv. on paper

An important manuscript, written in a beautiful running hand by an Italian
scribe. The various readings to be obtained by a collation of this manu-
script are very numerous. The following, from Chap. I. of Floras, may serve
as a sample : " Faustulus gregis pastor" instead of the usual regis pastor ;
" cujus exfilia Romidus gignitur" instead of ending with Romulus; "juyentutis
face," instead of juventceface / " sanguine et praida" instead of sanguinisuo ;
" Tuscorumque pastores" instead of Tuscique pastores ; " pulsi fatigatique"
for pulsi fugatique ; " habitas opes" for avitas opes ; " oh auctoritatem" for
ex authoritate, &c. The edition from which we took these various readings
is in the Lemaire Collection. Manuscripts of Aurelius Victor and Cor-
nelius Nepos are of rare occurrence. (See also No. 1097 in the present
Catalogue.)

381 Formttlaire pour les Abbesses. Sensuyt ung livre de plusieurs

difficultes qu' on pourroit avoir. Comment on doibt faire et proceder
en aulcunes choses de observances et manieres de faire, &c.

4to. Smc. xvi. (1530) on paper

This very curious Manuscript, written in the early part of the sixteenth
century (1530), commences with the mode of electing a visitor and an
abbess, the manner of her recognition, confirmation, &c. It then proceeds
to instruct her in her duties, and furnishes a complete letter-writer for
her guidance in conducting the Correspondence of the Abbey, and for
drawing out receipts, &c. As the words " Abbesse et Convent du Val
de Grace aultremens diet val parfond," are frequently repeated in this
manuscript, it is probable that the work was written for an abbess of that
convent at Paris. At the end are Recipes for making Ink Syrups,
Cordials, Confectionery, &c. &c.

88 THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS.

382 Forteguerri (Gio. Batt.) Processo et Arresto 6 Sentenza data dal
Parlamento di Tolosa sopra d'un fatto prodigioso et memorabile
tradotto di Lingua Francese con cento Annotationi
vellum 4ito. 8mc. xvi. on paper

An Autograph unpublished Manuscript, entirely prepared for the press, with
a Dedication to the Duchess of Tuscany (the celebrated Cristina di Lorena,
patroness of Galileo), signed by Forteguerri, and dated Pistoia, 1591. The
notes on this celebrated case of the false Martin Guerre are extremely
interesting.

883 Foscarini (Cav. Marco, " Ambasciatore Straordinario della S. Eep-

publica di Venezia a S. M. il Ee di Sardegna") Eelazione del

Governo, Politica, Forze militari, Imposizioni, Commercio, Frontiere,

&c. degli Stati di S. M. il Ee di Sardegna

vellum 4<to. Smc. xviii. on paper

A Manuscript dated 1 Marzo, 1743. Foscarini, who afterwards became Doge of
Venice, is the author of the well known work Della Letteratura Veneziana,
and was the founder of the celebrated Foscarini Library, the binding of
which is so well known to collectors. This work was published in 1830, at
Turin, by M. Cibrario, in the interesting collection, Relazioni dello stato
di Savoja.

384 France. Arbor Genealogi^ Eeoum Francorum (ad Ludovicum X,

A.D. MCCCXIIl) folio. S^C. xiv. ON VELLUM

A fine Manuscript, written in red and black, in double columns, with curious
heraldic figures in various colours. On the first page are the arms
of a cardinal of the Corsini family of Florence, and at the top of the same
leaf is written, " Andrese Corsini et Amicorum," in a handwriting almost
contemporary with the manuscript, which shows that in all probability this
manuscript belonged in the fourteenth century to Saint Andreas Corsini, and
afterwards to the Cardinal Corsini, who was Pope under the name of
Clement XII. At the end there are some old Italian additions relating to
the French families supposed to have been left by Charlemagne, in Florence,
in which the Chronicle of Folcho da Marsilia is quoted. On the fly-leaves
are some curious pen drawings, Italian verses, and several memoranda,
all in an ancient handwriting.

385 France. Cy apres sensuyvent les lionees des Eoys de France ;

et commant leurs generacions sont descendues lune de 1' autre, et
comant ils sont faillies, et parle en brief de leurs faiz, &c.

S^EC. xiv. ON VELLUM

An important historical roll, measuring 13 ft. 6 in. by 13g in., concluding with

the year 1372, which is probably the date of the manuscript, and

containing also much information relative to the history of England. This

is not a mere genealogical work, but a true chronicle, divided into various

chapters, the last being headed " Comment le prevost des Marchan (sic)

tua le Mareschal de Champagne." The publication of this interesting

chronicle would prove serviceable both to English and French history.
>

386 France. Discours particulier contenant le Dessein, Procede et Exe-

cution au vray qu'a tenu le Eoy Henry III. en la Mort de M. de
Guise a Blois en Decembre, 1588 folio. S^ic. xvi. on paper

387 France. Fuga del Principe di Conde (et alia) Svo. Sjec. xvii. on paper

This curious collection, in Italian, French, and Latin, relates to political and
private matters of the seventeenth century, and contains also a later memo-
randum concerning a printed Prognostication, brought from Spain to the
celebrated Peiresc at the beginning of 1610, in which the death of King
Henry IV. of France was foretold.

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388 France. Divers Memoires concernans la Sortie de Monsieur le Due

d' Orleans hors du Royaume, et les Choses advenues sur la Fin du
Regne du feu Louis XIII. folio. S^ic. xvii. on paper

Containing a full and interesting account of the retreat of Gaston Due d'Orleans,
brother of Louis XIII, into Flanders in 1632, his reception there, the
various court intrigues of the period, and his return to France in 1641;
also interesting unpublished letters and papers by Gaston d'Orleans, the
Cardinal Eichelieu, Desnoyers, Chavigny, &c.

389 France. Memoire succinct et Dissertation analisee sur le Comte

Venaissin vulgairement connu sous le nom du Comtat et sur la
Ville d' Avignon, anciens Demembrements du Comte de Provence.
Eecherche historique sur la Ville de Carpentras. Divers Extraits
de MSS. Histoire funeste d'une Sedition inouye arrivee dans
Avignon. Accord passe entre l'Eveque d' Avignon et le Prieur de
Bonpas au sujet de la Construction du Port de Bonpas en 1267

folio. Sjec. xviii. on paper

This unpublished and curious Manuscript contains a great number of important
historical documents ; the last being authenticated by a public notary in
1755.

390 France. Memoire sur la Guienne folio, S^c. xviii. on paper

This Manuscript is endorsed as having been found amongst the baggage of
Lord Peterborough, taken near Requena in Spain. This historical memoir
is entirely on the side of the right of England to that province of France.

391 France. Trattenimenti di una Dama sopra gli Affari presenti della

Eeligione in Francia, Opera ripiena d'importanti Notizie istoriche e
dottrinali tradotta dal Francese, vellum 4do. S^ec, xviii. on paper

Relating to Jansenism.

392 France. Organisation du depot general de la Geographie, de la Topo-

graphie Mditaire et de l'Hydrographie folio. Sjec. xviii. on paper

A valuable official document, dated An 3e de la Republique (1795).

393 Frangipane (D. Rosano) delle Segrezie del Regno

calf folio. S.ec. xviii. (1730) on paper

A statistical document of considerable importance for the history of Sicily. The
manuscript has been evidently written out for the press, and has the author's
autograph signature to the Dedication. The present work, consisting of
406 pages, is most probably unpublished, as Father Narbone in his Biblio-
grafia Sicola (vol. II, p. 57), mentions it only as in manuscript. It contains
some very curious documents, including, for instance, one (page 193) showing
that during the eighteenth century the negro and white slave trade was
carried on in Sicily, and that the duty for the exportation of slaves was
one per cent, ad valorem.

394 Frederic II. Les Matinees du Roi de Prusse

4ito. Smc. xviii. on paper
A contemporary manuscript of this singular work.

395 Fuoco. Se il fuoco sia secco o veramente umido

folio. S^:c. xvii. on paper

A curious work. The author objects to the Peripatetics for adopting the new
philosophy, which Galileo had already introduced in his works. The
word Umido is used here not in the sense of damp but liquid, or able to
receive its figure from another, a signification not generally understood.
This anonymous tract seems autograph.

90 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

396 Galenus de Morbo et Acoedente, cum variis ejusdem Opusculis

Medicis folio. S^c. xiv. on vellum

Closely written on several hundred leaves of very pure vellum, in double
columns, with the capitals of each work illuminated in gold and
colours. The translation appears to have been made from the Arabic of
Johannitius Filius Isaac by Marcus Toletanus (see in this manuscript at
the beginning of the Liber Galeni de Tactu pulsus). Several of the leaves
have been misplaced by the binder. The works contained in this elegant
and important manuscript are : 1. De Morbo et Accidente — 2. De Inte-
rioribus — 3. Megategni — 4. De Crisi — 5. De Elementis — 6. De Complexi-
onibus — 7. De Simplici Medicina — 8. De Maculo Cordis — 9. De Ingenio
Sanitatis — 10. De Tactu Pulsus — 11. De Motibus Difficilibus — 12. Ana-
tomia.

397 Galeni (Claud.) Opuscula yaeia, Graece folio. S2EC. xv. on papee

Written in very distinct Greek characters on 104 leaves. The works con-
tained in this manuscript are : de Foetuum Formatione ; de quinque
Sensibus ; de Moribus ; de Constitutione Hominis ; and de Medicamentis.

398 Galeni Synopsis de Pulsibus Grsece, cum Yersione Latina Blasii Ber-

nardii Eoroliviensis folio. S^ec. xvi. on papee

This Manuscript contains a great number of marginal various readings taken
from other Greek manuscripts. The translation seems to be in the auto-
graph of the translator, whose name was unknown to Tiraboschi. This
manuscript belonged to Alessandro Padoani, a great collector, who, about
three centuries ago wrote his name and the title of the work on the cover,
adding these words, " Sunt ibi qusedam alia quae cujus sint ignoramus."
Respecting the Padoani collection, see also Nos. 507, 607, &c. in the present
Catalogue.

399 Galilei (Galileo) De Mundi Sph^eea Teactatus Autogeaphus

CTJM FlGUEIS Mo. SJEC. XVli. ON PAPEE

An exceedingly interesting unpublished autograph work, full of drawings in ink
of astronomical instruments, as used during, the seventeenth century. The
author speaks of the new star in the Serpentarius (1604-1606) and the
comet of 1618 ; he speaks of the satellites of Jupiter ; says in a few words
and with great caution, that the hypothesis of Copernicus was forbidden by
the church; and gives the figure of the ring of Saturn as firstly supposed by
Galileo, in the shape of several stars. The spots of the sun are also men-
tioned. The discoveries of Galileo are often quoted as made hac tempestate
(in our time). But the most curious fact is that the figures, admirably
executed in ink, and the whole of the explanatory inscriptions, (filling
twenty leaves) as well as the forty-four leaves of the work itself, are in the
autograph of Galileo himself, who, it is well known, was an excellent
draftsman, and who very probably prepared this manuscript for one of his
most eminent pupils, amongst whom he reckoned several princes. To the
scientific collector this is A true gem. As will be seen by the facsimile,
there cannot be any doubt that the whole of the work, including the
drawings and inscriptions, is entirely in the well-known autograph of
Galileo, of which so many fac-similes have been published (see Venturi
Memorie di Galileo, the Isographie, and the last Florentine edition of the
works of Galileo). Galileo used two different sorts of handwriting, both
of which are exhibited by Venturi. Both these handwritings occur in
the present manuscript ; the one, which he wrote in his earlier days, being
chiefly found in the work, and the other, that of his more advanced life, in
the drawings and explanations, which seem to have been written subse-
quently. The name of Galileo is also written several times in the manu-
script, in such a way as to leave no doubt as to its being his autograph
signature.

It is not only as containing an autograph and unknown work of
Galileo that this manuscript is highly interesting, but also because it
affords an additional proof that the Tratiato della Sferay published in 1656

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after the death of Galileo by Father Davisi under a false name, and attri-
buted to Galileo, is a forgery. In fact that work was not admitted as
genuine by Viviani and Bonaventuri in their ancient editions of the works
of Galileo. Nelli did not believe it to be genuine, and even in the great
and excellent Florentine edition, now almost complete, undertaken by M.
Alberi, under the high patronage of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, it
seems to have been introduced only in order not to omit anything pre-
viously published under the name of Galileo. The reason why this work
is supposed to be a forgery is not only because it maintains the immo-
bility of the earth, but especially also, because the reasoning and argu-
ments employed in it are exactly of that peripatetic and scholastic
description which Galileo opposed from his earliest years. Not only
therefore, in our manuscript have we an autograph and unpublished work
of the great Galileo, but we have also a genuine work instead of the
forgery, which was undoubtedly intended to make ignorant people sup-
pose that this illustrious victim of the Inquisition had become a convert
to the scientific errors of his persecutors. From the cautious way in
which this work is written, and from the various quotations it contains, it
may be inferred that this work was written a few years after the
condemnation of the theory of Copernicus in 1616, and when Galileo, not
yet condemned himself, was obliged to be excessively cautious, and even
sometimes to publish works under the name of his pupils, as was the case
about this same time with his " Discorso delle Comete." Although
anonymous, the present work contains frequent allusions to the discoveries
of Galileo (the only astronomer then living who is quoted in this work).
To describe and illustrate this manuscript properly would require an
entire volume. That Galileo had two very different handwritings, at
different periods of his life, is, as we have already stated, a fact shown by
the facsimiles given by Venturi, and that this is often the -case has been
very ably pointed out by Mr. Leigh Sotheby in his important work on
Block Books. See also Nos. 153, 663, 1127, 1128, etc. (See facsimile.)

400 Galland (Antoine) Voyage fait dans le Levant en 1679 et 1680

4ito. SiEC. xviii. on papee

A transcript of a voyage made by Galland (who by his translation of the Arabian
Nights into French first introduced that celebrated work to Europe) in the
autograph of the learned Gabriel Brotier. Speaking of the original manu-
script, the Biographie Universelle observes, " Le P. Brotier en possedait le
manuscrit et y attachait une grande importance ; on ignore en quelles mains il
a passe a la mort de ce savant.'''' This interesting work is unpublished. See
also Nos. 195 and 196 in the present Catalogue.

401 Gallo de Monte Sano (Phylenio) " Per la florida Madofia Lylia YetB-

di "Virtu ornatyssima Sonetti e altee Rime"

4dO. SiEC. XV. ON papee
Unpublished poems of this author, whom Roscoe, in his Life of Leo X. (vol. I.
p. 78) supposes to have flourished towards the end of the fifteenth century,
and of whom he has given a few abstracts from a manuscript which was in
his possession. These love sonnets and poems are evidently written in
imitation of Petrarch, and are addressed by the author to his inamorata,
" Madonna Lylia Veneta" a portrait of whom is inserted in the elegantly
illuminated border. In the bottom margin there is also an emblematic
delineation of his love, "lilies joined together by a band, with an
inscription in gold, Hos conjunxit amor.'''' From a note of M. Bigazzi,
a bibliographer of Florence, it appears that this Canzoniere, which is
written with great pureness and more poetical taste than was generally
the case during the fifteenth century in Italy, was quite unknown to
Tiraboschi, Quadrio, &c.

402 Gaudentii (Paganini) Epistolae et Poeniata ad Gabrielem Naudseum

4fo. 1639-41, on papee

Eleven letters and three poems, all in the autograph of the celebrated

Paganino Gaudenzio, and addressed to the equally famous Gabriel Naude\

92 THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS.

Gaudenzio was Professor of Belles Lettres at Pisa, and on the most inti-
mate terms with the Grand Duke Ferdinand II, who often invited him to
his table, and found great delight in listening to the flood of erudition he
poured out on any subject which could be started. He was undoubtedly
a most learned man, and without his equal in philological pursuits. Fabro-
ni, in his " Vitse Italorum," (vol. XIV. p. 11,) says: " Paganinus Gauden-
tius Pesclaviensis, tantam apud nonnullos doctrinse famam collegerat, ut
quemadmodum Galileo in mathesi, Fortunio Liceto in philosophia, sic illi
in philologia nemo par poneretur."

403 Genoya. Le saggie Difficulty del Governo di Genova: Orazione del

Padre Cattaneo della Compagnia di Giesu nella Coronazione di
Agostino Centurione Doge di Genova — Perini (Giuseppe) Orazione
nella Coronazione di Luca Murea e Panegirico della Spina — Vieira
(Padre) se il mondo sia piu degno di riso o di pianto — Sectani (Q.)
Satyrse XV et XVI. — Poesie Italiane del Maggi, G. Guidiccione,
Bubiera, Marino, Filicaia, Zappi, A. Guidi, Gh M. Crescimbeni,
Brugueres, Pedrusi, Card. Panfilio, Pastorini, &c. &c.

in 1 vol. 4ito. Smc. xviii. on paper

From some important autograph variations and alterations in the sonnets of
Zappi, this manuscript seems to have belonged to that celebrated poet.

404 G-enoya. Relatione di Genova 4to. Smc. xvi. on paper

A very elaborate account of the state of Genoa, written about 1597, and which
has escaped all the bibliographers we could peruse. It bears the auto-
graph of G. B. Giustiniano Benedettino-Casinese, who appears, from his
note prefixed, to have obtained it as a gift from Sig. Nicolo Perazzo.
It is a very curious document, full of historical and statistical information
of great interest. It shows, for instance, that in 1597 the total number
of the inhabitants of Genoa was 60,929, and that out of that number
there were 1852 monks and nuns.

405 Genoya Liberata, Poema in otti Canti

half bound 4>to. S^c. xviii. on paper

An Autograph Manuscript. This is a very curious historical poem on the
celebrated popular fight which drove the Austrians out of Genoa about the
middle of the last century. It commences :

a Canto degli Austro Sardi e degl' Inglesi
Le ire, le imprese e il fiero Popol misto
Che uniron l'armi contro i Genovesi," &c.

We did not find any mention of it in Spotorno.

406 G-enoya. Descrizione dello Stato e Governo dell' Ospitale di Pamma-

tone 4to. Sjec. xix. on paper

407 Geographia sive Descriptio Orbis tain Terrae quam Maris sumpta

ex Libro de Proprietatibus Rerum compilato a F. Bartholom^eo
(Glanville) Anglico de Ordine Fratrum Minorum — Declaratio
Terr^; Sanct^i et Civitatuin vicinarum et reniotarum et Regnorum
quasi tocius Orbis ex Libro Fratris Brocardi — Tractatus de tribus
Orbis Partibus ac variis Naturis Hominum Portentorum Transfor-
matorum. Necnon de diversis Fluminibus Aquarum Insularum et
Montium royal folio. Smv. xv. on vellum

This magnificent manuscript is written on the purest vellum, with the capital
letters throughout the volume richly painted in colours and heightened
with gold. The first page is surrounded by a very elegant border, com-
posed of flowers illuminated in gold and colours. The Brocard and the
Tractatus forming the second and third parts of the entire work, have
similar borders but only in the lower margin. The various sheets have
signatures, a very uncommon occurrence in manuscripts, as in all proba-
bility, if such was the constant practice, they were, as intended to be, cut

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off by the binder. The first two parts are taken from well known works,
but as there are great variations between the different manuscripts of Bro-
cardus, the present one ought to be compared with other copies of the
same work. (Concerning Brocardus, see the excellent Palestine, by M.
Munk, p. 654.) The last Treatise is very curious and contains sixty-one
chapters, of which an Index precedes the work. It is interesting to the
English collector, as it contains much information relating to Great Britain.
In the Chapter cle Transformatis, the unknown author treats of werwolfs
and ghosts, and in the subsequent pages of persons with goitres, giants and
giantesses, pigmies, Cyclops and other monstrosities. Despite the absurdity
of such marvellous stories, we may add that besides a description of Eng-
land, Scotland, and Ireland, there is much curious information respecting
the whole of the ancient world (including Taprobane) in this work, of
which we can trace no mention in any author we have referred to
(including the classical work Monumenta Historica Britannica by Petrie), and
that it is highly interesting, not only to the geographer and the general
historian, but also to the historian of the sciences, as it contains separate
chapters : De Unguis gentium — De Mundo — De quinque circulis mundi —
De circulis coeli — De Mensuris — De itineribus, &c. The author frequently
quotes Virgil, Lucanus, Justinus, Augustinus, Isidorus, and has borrowed
largely from the last writer.

408 Geeaedi (A. T.) Tractatus de Virtute et Sacramento Poenitentise

Svo. Smc. xvii. on paper
In the autograph of Father Gerard of the Society of Jesus.

409 Geeaedi (Gulielmi, Nobilis Angli) Introductio ad Logicam

4ito. Smc. xvii. on paper

William Gerard was educated in the English College of Jesuits at Liege, of
which the Rev. Francis Carr was president. Prefixed is a printed broad-
side, announcing " Assertiones Dialecticce ad Mentem Philosophic which "Z>.
Gulielmus Gerardus Nobilis Anglus" would defend on 8 July, 1655. The
volume is slightly damaged by damp.

410 Geeaedi (G\) Carolina ; Tobias et S. Edwardus Tragoediae, &c.

8vo. S^c. xvii.

Slightly damaged by damp. Among the poems is one entitled, " Triplex Sus-
pirium ob afflictam Europce, Anglic et Philomusce conditionem." On the
fly-leaf is the autograph of Elizabeth Gerard.

411 Geeaedi (G.) Commentarius in decern Aristotelis ad Nichomachum

Libros . 4to. Smc. xvii. on papek

From the library of Sir Thomas Gerard, Bart., with his book plate. The front
margins are slightly damaged by damp.

412 Geeaedi (G.) Tractatus de Arithmetica, Algebra, Geonietria et aliis

Mathematicse Partibus 8vo. SiEC. xvii. on paper

413 Geemain (Sophie) Memoire sur la question proposee par la premiere

Classe de l'lnstitut " Donner la Theorie Mathematique des Vibrations
des Surfaces elastiques et la comparer a l'Experience"

folio. S^:c. xix. on papee

The autograph manuscript of this extraordinary lady-mathematician, who was
crowned by the Institut, 26 December, 1815, for having successfully
answered the difficult question, which had been previously placed thrice
for competition. This original work, consisting of twenty-six leaves, with
a great number of alterations and variations, is extremely interesting, as it
shows the manner in which this learned lady proceeded in her mathematical
investigations.

414 Geemain (M. Sophie) Reflexions sur l'Application de la Theorie des

Fonctions a la Geometrie 4<to. 8mc. xix. on papee

An autograph manuscript, consisting of twenty pages, written by this eminent
female mathematician. See also No. 1085, in the present Catalogue.

94 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

415 Gerolimo (Sancto) Li trenta Gradi della Celestiale Scala

in the original oak hoards 4<to. $mc. xv. on paper

Written in a very fine large hand. This is an excellent text of a classical
Italian work, quoted by the Crusca.

416 Giannone (Pietro) Professione di Eede scritta al Padre Giuseppe

Sanfelice folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper,

417 Gigli (Girolamo, " Sanese") L'Osita; Madama Ciana; il Virtuoso per

forza ; Commedia Senza titale folio. Sjec. xviii. on paper

Except "Madama Ciana," which was printed at Venice in 1744, all these plays
were unknown to Allacci, and his continuator. At the end of L'Osita (who
is represented as the daughter of Fritewald, King of England,) it is stated
that this play was left unfinished by Gigli. It is doubtful whether the other
plays are from the pen of the same humorous writer.

418 GIta Mahatmta, in Sanscrit

green morocco folio. S.ec. xviii. on glazed Oriental paper

We did not find any notice of this poem in Adelung. The volume is beautifully
written, with a coloured border.

419 Godefridi Conciones de Passione Domini, &c.

4fo. Sjec. xv. (1433) on paper

Unpublished sermons, written in 1433, as appears from the following colophon :
Et sic est finis istarum Concionum, scriptce necnon finitce die 28 Mensis Novem-
bris, Anno Domini 1433, per Godefridum, There is an Italian Laude, written
on two separate leaves, near the end of the volume, beginning thus, " Ohne
figlio anima mia : Oime figlio vita mia."

420 Gothics Linguae Grammatica. Accedunt Preces Anglo-Saxonicae et

Modus confitendi Anglo-Saxonice 8vo. S&c. xvii-xviii. on paper

421 GtkmcijE Antiquae Reliquiae Imperatori Carolo Austrio Salutem

8V0. SMC. Xvi. ON VELLUM

This long letter, which appears to have been written to Charles V. about 1534,
by some leading persons of the national party of Greece to obtain his
assistance with an army against the Turks, contains much information
concerning the irruption of the Turks into Greece.

422 GRiEvii (J. G.) Dictata in Suetonium 4<to. Smc. xvii. on paper

At the end is bound up " Observationes V. CI. Gerhardi de Vries ad Institutiones
politicas V. CI. M. Z. Boxliomii" in the same handwriting.

423 Gr^vii (J. G.) Collegium Chronologicum habitum mdcxcviii.

vellum 4to. S^c. xvii. on paper

A very excellent Chronology of History from the Creation to the Treaty of
Breda in 1677. This work on general history, chronologically arranged
by this celebrated scholar, consists of 363 pages.

424 Grammatici Veteres : Tractatus grammaticalis, " Grammaticorum

IIII. videlicet lectio, enarratio. emendatio. judicium.' ' — Seryii
Liber de ultimarum sillabarum natura — Incipit a magno per car-
mina scripta Tebaldo — Regttla de longis de brevibusque protis —
Tractatus de lie Metrica, qui incipit " A in prima sillaba ante b
brevis est excepto fabula, fabella, faber, &c." — De Accentibus
in the original binding 8vo. Smc. x. on vellum ■'

A most important manuscript, which would deserve a longer description. The
first work contains the first book of the Donati ars Gh^ajnmatica, as published
by Lindemann, but with an introduction (beginning quot sunt officia gram-

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rnatkorum) which is not in the edition, and a great number of various
readings. For instance, at the end of that first book we read :

Manuscript. Edition.

" Media? distinctio est ubi fere tantum " Media est tibi fere tantumdem de

de sententia super est quantum jam dixi- sententia superest, quantum jam diximus,

mus cum tantum respirandum sit. Huius cum tamen respirandum sit. Huius

punctum ad mediam litteram ponimus. punctum ad mediam litteram ponimus.

In lectione autem tota sententia periodo In lectione tota sententia periodos di~

dicitur. I. clausula cuius partes sunt citur, cuius partes sunt cola et comata."
cola et comata. I. membra et cesa."

This book of Donatus is followed here by a long commentary or expositio,
which seems quite unknown, and in which Sergius and other grammarians
are quoted. The Liber Seevii begins and ends like the work of the
same author published under the same title by Putschius, but immediately
after the dedication to Aquilinus up to the chapter De Verbo the manuscript
is so different as to be quite a new work. The work Regula Tebaldi,
written in verse with interlineary glosses, is a poem on prosody of which we
could find no trace in Gothofredus, Putschius, Lindemann, Gaisford,
(Scriptores rei metricse) or in any other work or collection which we have
been able to peruse. The Tractatus de re Metrica (which is a con-
siderable work), we have also been unable to trace. A portion of the last
work, De Accentibus, is taken (with numerous various readings) from the
work of Priscian on the same subject. (See Prisciani Opera minora, p.
158). The figures of the accents deserve attention (see also Nos. 523 and
1103 in the present Catalogue). Besides the above mentioned works there
are in this precious volume several other smaller tracts on a similar subject,
which seem also unknown. After so many inquiries and works respecting
the ancient and later grammarians, it would hardly be supposed possible to
discover so rich a mine of the kind. This true gem has at the beginning
a note written in the last century, and stating that this Codex Pretiosis-
simus S^eculi x. belonged (in the fifteenth century) to the celebrated
Marsilio Ficino. (See facsimile) .

425 Gratiani (Antonii Maria?) Vita Joannis Francisci Commendoni Cardi-

nalis, vellum folio. S^ic. xvii. on paper

Important for the general history of Europe, and even of England.

426 Gratiolo (Ludovico) del Governo d'Ancona 4fo. SiEC. xvi. on paper

An autograph unpublished work, quite unknown to the author of the " Biblio-
grafia dello stato Pontificio." The author asks for reforms and relates
some intolerable grievances of the poor people of Ancona. For instance, he
states that when a fisherman goes to the market to sell fish, he is obliged
to accept the price offered him by the buyer.

427 Gray (Thomas, "Minor Canon and Precentor of "Winchester") Ser-

mons preached in "Winchester Cathedral, a.d. 1683-85

Svo. 1683-85, on paper

Autograph Sermons, probably by an Ancestor of Thomas Gray, the Poet.

428 Grazzini (Anton Francesco, detto il Lasca) Canzone (autografd)

nella Morte di Giovanni Falconi 4to. Smc. xvi. (1541) on paper

Attached to an autograph letter to Giulio Mazzinghi, dated "Fiorenza, 6 Setembre
MDXLI0." Specimens of the handwriting of this distinguished Novelist
and Poet, whose works are pronounced by Koscoe a perfect model of the
simplicity and beauty of the Italian language, are of the rarest occur-
rence. Annexed is a parody of a Pastorale, also written in the sixteenth
century. The following is a specimen of this curious parody:

" Bella cosa veder col suo bastone — E con la sua sampogna — Un pastor pien di
rogna," etc.

9G THE LIBEI MANTTSCEIPTS.

429 Grazzini (Francesco Maria) Eime. Ejusdem Carmina et Epistolae

Latinse folio. $mc. xviii. on paper

An autograph unpublished manuscript, evidently prepared for the press.

430 Gregorii Nysseni Opuscula Gr^ce

Hue morocco folio. S^c. ix. ON telltjm

This noble manuscript, which belonged to the late Lord Guildford and was sold
in 1829, in the third part of his sale (Lot 649), was not on that occasion suffi-
ciently described, having been merely catalogued under the above general
title. The reason why it was not more fully described was probably
because, owing to the antiquity of the manuscript, the vellum in several
places had become very difficult to read on account of its purple hue, and
also because the difficulty was increased by several of the leaves (58 in
number) having been misplaced by the bookbinder. The proper order in
which those leaves ought to be disposed has been indicated by the learned
Mr. Hamilton of the British Museum in some slips contained in this volume.
This manuscript is written in the same small beautiful character, (and per-
haps by the same scribe) as the celebrated Euclid in the Bodleian library,
the marginal annotations and headings being written in the most elegant
capital letters: It contains the Liber de Anima et Resurrectione, by
St. Gregory of ISyssa, the Liber de Natura Hominis by the same, the
Liber de Anima (et Alia) by St. Gregory the Thaumaturgus, and some
other matters, either unknown or unpublished, without the name of the
author. Compared with the edition of M. Krabinger, the "Liber de
Anima'''' offers a great many variations, the dialogue itself being in this
manuscript differently divided between the two interlocutors. Both the
uncial and small characters in this manuscript are much more elegant than
any of those which Montfaucon has reproduced in the facsimiles of his
Paleographia Graca, or which more recently Mr. Shaw and Mr. Jones
have selected for their splendid works, and the shape of the letters as well
as that of the accents, undoubtedly prove this manuscript to be at least of
the ninth century, and perhaps earlier. Without doubt this is ONE of the
most important Greek Manuscripts ever offered for sale. (See fac-
simile.)

431 Gregorii (S.) Dialogorum libri IV. — Vita S. Simeonis

folio. Sjsc. ix. on vellum

This venerable Manuscript belonged to the celebrated P. Pithou, and was sold in
1837, with the Duchess of Berry's Library (see also Nos. 104 and 490 in the
present Catalogue), and has the book plate of the Bibliotheque de Rosny (see
that Catalogue, No. 2369). The Libri Dialogorum, written in an old rude
hand, are slightly deficient at the beginning, and perhaps a few leaves are
also wanting in the middle of the volume, which is in the state in which it
was at the time of Pithou. The initials (one curiously ornamented) are
in different colours. A few leaves, towards the end, seem to have been
written during the eleventh century. {See facsimile.)

432 Gregorii PAPiE Vita, Auctore Johanne ultimo Leyitarum

half green morocco, gilt edges folio. S^ec. xi. on vellum

On the last leaf of this fine manuscript will be found " Versus epithaphii sancti
gregorii" and his famous " Epistolade Pamitentia Canonicorum pro Fornica-
tione." This Life, by Johannes Diaconus, dedicated to Pope John VIII.
must have been written between the years 872 and 882, as it was compiled
by order of that pontiff, who was elected in the former and died in the
latter year. This manuscript, written in large characters, in double columns,
is in a fine state of preservation. The numerical figures are all written
according to the ancient Roman system. (See facsimile.)

433 Gregorii, Pap^ Hrbis Eom^:, Liber Pastoralis

green morocco extra, joints, gilt edges 4to. Bmc. xi. ON yellum

Finely written with a large initial. The text is very good and offers several

variations from the Benedictine edition (Par. 1705, 4 vol. in fol. torn. II.)

The most important is that instead of the fourth book, containing only a

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single chapter (qualiter prcedicator, &c.) as in the edition, which seems very
meagre, it begins with chapter XXXVI. of the third book, as printed, and
contains the whole matter relating to public preaching, thus making a
fourth book of six chapters instead of a single one (See facsimile) .

434 Gregorio Papa (Sancto) Libro di Dialog! (tracto di Latino in vulgare)

vellum folio. Sjec. xv. on paper

Written in double columns in a very elegant Italian hand, a fine miniature
Portrait of St. Gregory being inserted in the initial letter. At the bottom
of the first page are the arms of the original owner. This translation,
which is classical and quoted by the Crusca Academy, was made in the
fourteenth century by Fra Domenico Cavalca, a Dominican monk, so
celebrated for the purity of his Italian style. By comparing this manu-
script with the folio edition printed at Venice in 1475, by Giovanni di
Colonia, we find that our manuscript contains an older text than the printed
one, with considerable variations.

435 Gregorii Papae (Beati) Prima Pars Moralium et in Pine hujus primse

Partis quidem Liber de Consolatione Theologiae expositus a Magistro
Johanne Jarsonis (Gerson), calf folio. JSiEC. xv. on paper

436 Gregorio XIII. Discorso giuditioso sopra i Soggetti Papabili in

Tempo di Gregorio XIII. folio. S^;c. xvi. on paper

Containing curious biographies of the then living Cardinals.

437 Gregorio XV, Conclave di (28 Jan. 1621) 4to. Smc. xvii. on paper

A manuscript of the period, from the Library of L. A. de Ponte, P. V. (Venetian
Patrician) .

438 Grevert (Jodocy) Secret tres noble et veritable (en Alchimie)

4<to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

439 Gringoire (Pierre) Moralite et farce dit Mere sotte

8vo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

440 Gronoyii (Jo. Er.) ex Planti Fabulis Excerpta et ejusdem Excerpta

Terentiana folio. S^ec. xvii. on paper

These critical notes by one of the most distinguished Professors of Leyden, are
of the greatest value for elucidating the comic writings of Plautus and
Terence. At the beginning there is a fine portrait of Gronovius.

441 Gronovii (Jo. Er.) Index Vocum omnium in Catullo

folio. S^:c. xvii. on paper
An autograph and interesting unpublished manuscript of this celebrated scholar.

442 Gronoyii (J. Er.) Collectanea ad Libros de Officiis

red morocco, gilt edges 4to. Sjec. xvii. ON paper

With an autograph note of Dr. Routh, President of Magdalen College, stating
that it belonged to Professor Te Water, and that he bought it for £ 1. lis. 6d.

443 Gronovii (Jo. Er.) Dictata in Elorum 4fo. SiEC. xvii. on paper

With* the autograph of R. Gough, stating that he purchased this manuscript at
Askew' s sale.

444 Gronovii (J. Er.) Excerpta ex Lectionibus publicis ad Herodiaimm

(partly autograph), calf gill 4<to. SiEC. xvii-xviii. on paper

These notes will be found of the greatest value to the future editor.

445 Gronovii (Jo. Er.) Dissertatio de Musaeo Alexandrino et Excerpta e

Prselectionibus publicis in Herodianum, cum notis Autographis J. G.
Grcevii, calf 4to. Sjec. xvii-xviii. on paper

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416 Gronoyii (Jacobi) Notae in Lucam Mo. Siec. xvii. on paper

An autograph manuscript of this distinguished scholar, consisting of about 400
leaves, and full of Greek and Latin biblical erudition. The book contains
a great number of loose papers, with annotations of Gronovius, mostly
written upon fragments of letters addressed to him, and some of which
still retain his name, There is also a fragment of a printed leaf with
the name of Abrah. Elzevier, and the date of 1699. (sic.')

447 Gronoyii (Jacobi) Annotationes in Macrobium

Svo. Sjac. xvii. on paper

An important work, in the autograph of this eminent scholar. On one of the
pages there is the date of 1672.

448 Gronovii (Jacobi) NotaD doctissiniae in J. P. D' Apples de Hydro-

phobia Mo. Siec. xvii. ON PAPER

In the autograph of the eminent Leyden Professor, James Gronovius. These
notes are written over an interleaved copy of a Tract, which was
printed at Padua in 1676.

449 Gronovii (Jacobi) Annotata Philologica in Apocalypsin

4ito. Sjec. xvii. ON PAPER

450 Gronoyii (Jacobi) Dictata in Acta Apostolorum 1683

4<to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

451 Gronovii (Jacobi) Dictata in Sophoclis Ajacem cum Indice Graeco,

a.P/. mdccyiii. Mo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

452 Gronoyii (Jacobi) Dictata in Justinum Mo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

453 Gronovii (Jacobi) Dictata ad Epistolam Pauli ad Hebraeos, in the

handwriting of his son, " ex Ore Paterno Incepi 22 die Septembris,
a. 1710" Mo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

Very important to a divine or Greek scholar. The volume consists of 221
pages.

454 Gronoyii (Jacobi) Publicao Lectionea in Evangelium Mathaei et Notae

in Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios Mo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

455 Gronoyii (Jacobi) Notae autographae in Justinum, quibus Abr. Grono-

vius in sua Editione hie illic usus est Mo. Smc. xviii. on paper
A large collection of autograph notes of that celebrated scholar.

456 Gronoyii (Jacobi) Scriptores citati in Scholiis Apollonii Ehodii Graece

— Glossae Graecas in Libros Yet. Testamenti, with collations of the
Vossian and Hemsterhusian Codices
Autograph Manuscript Mo. Sjec. xvii. on paper

457 Gronoyii (Abrahami) Annotata in Carmen Tograi Poetae Arabis et ad

Geographiam JNubiensem — Scaligeri (J.) Notata ad Scholiasten
Ben Syra9 Svo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

458 Gronoyii (Abrahami) Notae autographs in Justinum ab editis non

parum discrepantes Mo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

In the autograph of the celebrated Abraham Gronovius.

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FOURTH DAY'S SALE.

LOT

459 Gualdi (Abbate) Vita di Donna Olimpia Maldachini cbe governo la

Chiesa durante il Pontificato d'Innocentio X, cioe doppo l'Anno
1644, sin al 1655 4>to. 1666, on paper

A satirical work, chiefly against Pope Innocent X. See also No. 643, in the
present Catalogue.

460 Guarini (G-. B.) in IV Georgicaruni Libros Yirgilii Argumenta et

Declarationes 4*to. Sjec. xv. on paper

Supposed to be in the Autograph of G. B. Guarini the" Elder, as the handwriting
is perfectly similar to other manuscripts by him, preserved in the Public
Library at Ferrara (See the note at the beginning of this manuscript). This
work is well worthy the attention of future editors. The celebrated
Baptista Guarini the elder, was the professor under whom Aldus Manutius
studied, and to whom that printer dedicated his edition of Theocritus,
printed in 1495. If not by him, these Declarationes, with many marginal
alterations, are undoubtedly in the autograph of a first-rate scholar of the
fifteenth century.

461 Guarini (Cavaliere Batt.) Selva di varii Concetti

4t0. SiEC. Xvi. ON PAPER

An Autograph and unpublished Manuscript of the celebrated author of the Pastor
Fido; prefixed is the autograph signature of the learned Archiprete
G. Baruffaldi of Ferrara. On the first leaf of the work there is a note
dated 1700 stating that Guarini intended to publish this. work but was
prevented by death.

462 Guarini (Cav. B.) Scelta di Versi e Sentenze tratti da Guarini e da varii

altre Autori 8vo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

463 Guarnerii (Joannis Antonii, " Canonici Bergomatis ") Oratio in

Adventu B. D. Hieronymi Bagazoni Episcopi Bergomatis habita

4ito. 1578, on paper

464 Guerre (La) et la paix du prebstre et dn Bourgeoys

■Bvo. S^c. xvi. on paper

A curious dialogue written in old French. This manuscript is of the beginning
of the sixteenth century. In this work the Bourgeoys does not spare the
gens aVEglise. The priest introduces himself as about to proceed
"aii Pays des hides Nouvelles ^ (America), where God, the Church and the
Sacraments are still held in honour.

465 Guerrici Abbatis Sermones cum aliquibus Legendis Sanctorum

original binding 4to. Sjec. xv. on paper

Guerricus, Abbas Igniacensis, was the Disciple of St. Bernard, and died in
1157. His Sermons are pronounced by Combefiss "vere aureos ac mellitos."
This manuscript contains also Sermons by St. Anselm, St. Augustin, St.
Maximus, &c, probably abridged by Guerricus himself. Among the
legends, are Lives of St. Thomas a Becket, and other English Saints. This
manuscript formerly belonged to the Carthusian Convent prope Didmaniam .

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466 Guicciardini (Francesco) che Eagioni abbia la Chiesa Eomana nelle

Terre di Bomagna — Sepulvedj?: (Jo. Genesii) de Correctione
Anni Commentarius cum Prrefatione ad Gasparem Contarenum
S. E. E. Cardinalem, beautifully icritten, with the Author's auto-
graph corrections, circa 1545 — Discorso delle Comete, S^ec. xvii.
(1680) — Colloquio su gl'Affari presenti fatte nell' Inferno tra
Mahometto e Monsieur Colbert gia Ministro di Erancia dal 1683,
Sjec. xvii. — Lettera scritta da Benedetto di Poggio intorno all'
Origine del Proverbio, che si dice Stare, 6 conversare in Apolline,
1709 — Discorso di B. di Poggio intorno alia Valutazione del Ses-
terzio circa 1710 — Breves Meditationes in Orationem Quietis —
Dtscorso contro l'Orazione di Quiete. (The last two in the Author's
autograph, with corrections) folio. Sjec. xvi. xvii. et xviii. on paper

This is a very curious collection, consisting of several hundred pages, mostly in
the autographs of the authors, written during the sixteenth, seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, and unpublished. The "Discorso delle Comete," which
is autograph and apparently in the handwriting of J. D. Cassini, is very
curious; it mentions the " Cometa del presente anno 1680."

467 Guido de Monte Eocherii, manipulum curatorum

4t0. SjEC. XV. ON PAPER

Imperfect at the end.

468 Guillaume d'Aquitaine, Vye Mons. Sainct Guillaume jadis Due

Dacquitaine et Conte de Poictou Translate de Latin en Erancoys
par maistre Geoffroy des nez en Ian de grace 1316 le 17 Jour de
Janvier, in the original binding 4<to. Sjec. xv. on paper

Avery important manuscript, " Ex Bibliotheca et Conventu S. Martini Turonen-
sis." This Guillaume was one of the most celebrated men of the tenth
century.

469 Guillelmi Apuliensis Eeruin in Italia ac Eegno Neapolitano Norman -

nicarum Libri quinque 4<to. Sjec. xviii. on paper

A well-known historical poem.

470 Guilielmi de Ealgario, " Ministri Equitania3," Abbreviatio quatuor

Librorutn D. Bonaventurae super Sententias

4<to. Sjec. xiv. on vellum

Written by an Italian Scribe, who concludes with " Orate pro Scriptiyre." It
seems then to have been handed over to the Illuminator, who, having
painted the capitals in gold and colours, writes below his fellow-labourer,
" et pro Aminiatore." The junction of the two in the same prayer is rather
an extraordinary occurrence. This author was Vicar-General of the Order
of Minorites, and one of the most learned men of the thirteenth century.

471 Guillet. Precis historique de l'Expedition Anglaise sur le Bas-Escaut

pendant les derniers Mois de 1809 4to. Sjec. xix. on paper

An official paper, signed by the author.

472 Guinebaud (Mademoiselle) Lettre d'une Demoiselle d' Orleans a une

de ses Amis, contenant une Eelation de son Voyage a Paris en
mdccxxviii, suivie d'une Description des Jardins de Chantelou et
de Details sur Ozias Eeronce Jardinier des Thuilleries sous Henri IV,
et scavant Astronome, par Jean Eelicissime Adry

4to. Sjec. xix. on paper

In the autograph of J. F. Adry, and entirely prepared for publication, but
.never printed. Adry was an indefatigable bibliographer, and wrote many
most interesting prefaces for the different works edited by him. This
manuscript is dated Paris mdcccxv.

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473 Gulshan-i-Khusrawi, or Garden of Khusru : A choice selection, in

Verse and Prose, from the most eminent Persian Authors, made at
the request- of Mirza Khusru Beg, an Indian nobleman, copied and
collected Anno Hegirse 1246 (a.d. 1830), in six parts, viz. Parts 1, 2
and 3, various Poems, Sonnets, Epigrams, &c; Part 4, the WAKAi'-i-
Hyderabad, by Ni'mat Khan 'Ali, written in the reign of Aurang-
zib, being a Satirical Account of Aurangzib's operations against
Golconda and Hyderabad; Part 5, Htjsn-u-'Ishk (Beauty and Love) ;
Part 6, Ramz-al-RIyahin in praise of Shah 'Abbas, his Garden, &c.

folio. SiEC. Xix. ON PAPER

The last part has an ornamented title and thirty admirably illuminated pictures
of flowers, shrubs and birds. The whole volume is beautifully written in
the Nasta' lik character, on glazed India paper, with variegated border lines,
and is handsomely bound and lettered.

This is a most interesting manuscript, not only on account of the beauty of
the characters and illuminations, but also for its contents. The collection of
Persian poets contained in the first three parts is one of the richest of the
kind, containing poems written by fifty-two of the most celebrated Persian
poets, whose names are given in the manuscript, such as : Kudsl, Jam!,
Sulaiman Subahi, 'Abd-Al-Wahab Nishat, Fatah 'AH Khan, Badr Gull,
Sayid Muhammad, Husain Isfahan!, &c. The last work is a collection
of poems by the celebrated Persian poet, Ramzi, who, having offered a
poem to the great Shah Abbas while standing in his garden, the Shah
ordered the poet to write these poems in praise of the same.

474 Guzman (Francisco de) Seicientas Sentencias y Flor de Sentencias

glosadas (en Verso) Mo. S^c. xvi. (1572) on paper

This interesting manuscript is in the autograph of Bonifacio Carnesequi, " hijo
legitimo de Juan Carnesequi de Stirpe e familiaridad florenUna, segunda
naturaleza, y primera origen y degendencia de la casa de Borgona ymperial"
who has added at the end his letter to "Donna Leonora de Guzman
Abbadesa en el Monasterio de Sa Clara d'Sevilla," on the manner of reciting
the Rosary, his letter to Senora Florentina Botti, a Confession of his Faith
in which are particulars of his life, and several Indulgences, the latter in
Italian and Latin. This Carnesequi (or rather Carnesecchi) a Florentine
Spanish writer, was no doubt a relative of the celebrated Pietro Carne-
secchi, who was one of the most illustrious victims of the Inquisition in the
sixteenth century, and who perished miserably at Rome in 1567, preferring
rather to suffer death as a reformer, than to preserve life by the abjuration
of his faith.

475 H^reticorum Eenunciatio. Incipit qualis Hasreticus Patarinus ab

renuntiatione hseresi suae atque ecclesise Catholicse satisfaciat

4t0. SJSC. xiv. ON VELLUM

At the end is a collection of quotations from Scripture remarkable for the
references being in Arabic figures, some of them of unusual shape. It is
well known that the Patarini heretics were persecuted during the middle
ages by the Inquisition.

476 Hafiz (Muhammad Shams-al-Dm) Diwan-i-Haeiz : the Poems of

the celebrated Poet Hafiz, in Persian

gorgeously hound in the Oriental style, the inside covers displaying
bouquets of painted flowers, and the outside a blaze of gold and
colour 8vo. Sjec xviii.

A most exquisite specimen of Oriental caligraphy, written in a very elegant
Nasta'lik character on glazed paper. Each page, with the exception of the two
first, which are surrounded by most elaborate borders, executed in gold and
colours, is divided into two columns within a frame formed of lines executed
in gold, blue, and green, having an ornamented centre. The commencement

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of each poem is marked by a flower painted also in colours on a gilt ground.
There is also a miniature painting (Miraj-Namah) representing the ascension
of Mohammed to heaven. The Diwan-i-Hafiz is esteemed by Mohammedans
generally as very little inferior in beauty of style and piety of sentiment to
the Koran itself, and is frequently consulted by Diviners in the East. The
Emperor Nadir Shah never undertook any arduous enterprize without
previously consulting this revered work. The true name of the poet was
Muhammad Shams-al-Dln, but he is better known by the name of Hafiz,
the title applied to those who have learnt the Koran by heart. He is con-
sidered the finest lyric poet of the Persians, and independent of his literary
beauties has the merit of illustrating in a remarkable degree the manners
and customs of that nation. His poems to the unlearned reader would often
appear licentious, but to the initiated they are mysteries in which the author,
in imitation of Solomon, veils under the name of earthly love and wine his
love and admiration of the divine essence. Hafiz died a.d. 1394, at his
birthplace Shiraz, where his tomb is still to be seen This true gem, in
which the caligraphic beauty is coupled with one of the finest specimens
of Oriental binding in existence, was written and ornamented in Kashmir,
no less renowned in the East for its shawls than for its ornamented
manuscripts. See also No. 587 in the present Catalogue.

477 Hagadah schel Pesach. The Legend of the Paschal Eeast, in

Hebrew folio. S^o. xv. on yelltjm

A very extraordinary manuscript of one of the most popular Legends of the
Jews, by some supposed to have been written as early as the second century,
and by none later than the fifth. It gives in detail the Exodus from
Egypt, and is read in the family circles of the Jews on the first and
second evenings of the Passover. (See Bartholocci, Bibl. Rabb. vol. II,
p. 389 et 764.) It is adorned with nearly one hundred curious illumina-
tions in colours, representing Expounding the Law, Praying, Hunting, Sports,
Cooking the Lamb, Banquets, &c. although it is well known that nothing
is more uncommon than to find ancient Hebrew manuscripts with illumina-
tions of human beings and animals. (See also No. 522 in the present
Catalogue.) The features, the costumes, and the dresses of the men, as
well as those of the women, show that this manuscript is a remarkable
specimen of the old Spanish art of illumination, of which so few are in
existence. The characters are large and the headings in gold. Some
illuminations are a little defaced, but for the most part they are in a
good state of preservation. (See facsimile.)

478 Hamilton (Comte Antoine) Pleur d'Epine, Conte

old French red morocco, gilt, marbled edges Svo. Sjsc. xvii. ON papeb

A fine specimen of caligraphy. This beautiful tale was written by the cele-
brated Count Hamilton, author of the delightful Memoires de Grammont.

479 IIashim 'AlT Khan (Mir Muhammad) surnamed Khafi Khan, the

" Tarikli-i- Khafi Khan," in 2 vols. viz. Vol. 1 containing a History
of the House of Timur (Tamerlane) from its origin to the fifteenth
year of the reign of Muhammad Shah, (a.d. 1732) ; and Vol. 2,
A History of Aurangzib, from his accession to the throne until his
death, in the fifty-first year of his reign, viz. Anno Hegirse 1118
(a.d. 1706-7) 2 vols, folio. SiEC. xviii. on papeb

This work is one of the chief authorities for the History of Hindustan.
Complete manuscripts of this work are very scarce.

480 Hebeaica Lingua. Annotationes nonnullse qua3 ad Hebraeae Gram-

matices Rationem spectant 4>to. Sjec. xvi. on paper

An autograph grammar written by some Italian Hebrew scholar of the sixteenth
century.

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481 Heraldry. Avery curious and extensive Collection of Foreign Genea-

logies, including the principal Families of Brabant, Flanders, Guel-
derland, Holland and Germany, with manuscript Index

folio. S^c. xvi-xviii. ON paper

This valuable Collection contains numerous pedigrees written by various hands
on loose sheets of paper during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, having the coats of arms either emblazoned or drawn in trick.
In several instances there are also drawings of ancient monuments. There
are also in this collection several autograph letters by different learned
men of the seventeenth century on the subject of Heraldry, &c.

482 Herbario, con Figure Mo. SiEC. xv. on paper (80 leaves)

Each leaf contains a rude drawing in colours of the Plant described in the
opposite page. The work, which seems totally unknown, commences
" Dacer el qualle te scrive li vertu de alchune herbe in lo so principio mette in
parte de le vertu etproprieta de lartemissio, tC'c." For the history of Botany
this manuscript is invaluable. Ancient manuscript Herbarj in Italian, with
drawings, are extremely scarce; one only is mentioned by Marsand, and not
a single one is to be found in the immense Catalogue of the Medicean
Library by Bandini.

483 Hermanni Contracti liber de Compositions Astrolabii— Incipit

Bjthmachia, Incipit: " Nomen, materia intentio finis" — Libri
Almogesti Ptolomei Philudensis (Abbreviatio seu Capitulatio) — ■
B.HETORICA et Grammaticalia Qusedam 4<to. 8mc. xii. on vellum

An invaluable manuscript to the historian of mathematics. It is written
in double columns and full of numerical tables, the whole of them
according to the ancient Roman alphabetical system. It is well known
that Hermannus Contractus, so celebrated for his Latin, Greek, and Arabic
erudition in the first portion of the twelfth century, was one of the first to
introduce amongst the Christians the sciences of the Arabs, and this work,
full of Arabic names chiefly relating to astronomy, is a proof of his Oriental
labours. This work was first published by Pez, in the third volume of his
Thesaurus Anecdotorum, and it has recently been republished in Paris by
M. Migne, in the 143rd volume of his really grand work, Patrologue cursus
completus. In this last volume (col. 379-412) may be seen how many difficul •
ties Pez had to contend with in publishing the writings of Hermannus on
the Astrolabe, from a manuscript in which perhaps different works written by
different authors were mixed together. {Res obscura et perplexa, said Pez.)
The present manuscript contains a text of the Liber de Compositione Astro-
labii, quite different in the general disposition as well as in the details
from the two works (De Mensura Astrolabii and De Utilitatibus Astrolabii),
published both by Pez and M. Migne. For instance, the manuscript begins
with quicunque astronomical peritice, and contains a portion of the Liber primus
of the work published under the title of " De Utilitatibus Astrolabii," {Migne,
vol. 143, col. 389), and then gives the Liber de compositione Astrolabii, pub-
lished by M. Migne under the same title of De Utilitatibus Astrolabii, in the
volume already quoted (col. 389). But there are great differences between
this manuscript and the edition. Besides the work, De Mensura Astrolabii, as
printed, the manuscript contains some additional matter, followed by several
chapters, the first of which forms in the edition (col. 405) the caput primum
of the second book, De Utilitatibus Astrolabii. The tables also offer con-
siderable variations. As our manuscript is very ancient and was very
probably written shortly after the death of the author (if not in his life time)
we are induced to believe that we have here the true work of Hermannus,
whilst Pez, in all probability, had only an interpolated copy, with subsequent
additions. The Kithmaciiia is a work of great importance for the history
of arithmetic, and of the composite or figurative numbers {noinbres figures).
It has nothing to do with the work published in 1496 at Paris, by Jacobus
Faber Stapulensis (and republished in 1510, both folio editions, quoted by Pro-
fessor De Morgan) under the name of" Kithmomachia," which is in the shape
of a dialogue between Bathillus, Alcmeon, and Brontinus, with tables having

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Arabic numerals, quite different also from the tables with Roman alphabetical
numerical figures of the manuscript. The following is a quotation from the
first chapter of this work : — " Non enim aliter arismetice opus rithmachia
representat quam musica in cytharis et organis, et geometria in abaci
opere et astronomia in hoscopis et astrolabii sollertia consistit. Inventor ludi
hujus apud Romanos Boetius fuit, quemadmodum arismetice apud Grsecos
Pytagoras et Nicomacus et alii quapropter his premissis ad negotium
transeamus." The beginning of this work, as given in the title, shows
that this Rithmachia is also quite different from the work with the same
title contained in the manuscript 366 of the Ecole de Medecine, of Mont-
pellier, (See Catalogue general des Manuscrits, vol. I, p. 433), and that
it has no connection whatever with the work of Shirwood, printed at
Rome, 1482, in 4to. As both Trithemius and Jcecher say, that Her-
mannus Contractus composed a Rythmomachia, and the present very old
manuscript contains such a work immediately after that on the Astrolabhim,
by the same Hermannus, we may believe that we have here the original
work written by that celebrated little man. The abridgment of Ptolemy
and the Rhetorica, consisting of five columns, closely written, are in a
different, although ancient hand-writing. (See facsimile).

484 Hermant, Le Rommans de Sapience (en Vers)

folio. Smc. xviii-xix. on paper

A transcript from the original vellum Manuscript of the thirteenth century at
Chartres, in the autograph of M. Herisson formerly librarian in that town.
This singular biblical romance, written in old French, and consisting of
about 170 leaves, has never been published.

485 Hesse. Christliche Leichtpredigten : Two (autograph) Sermons, the

one preached before the Clergy of Ottsberg by Jesaias Plocket, and
the other at Langfelt by Matthew Vietz, at the Funeral of " Ludwig
Landgraf von Hessen, Graf zu Catzenellenbogen Vietz Ziegenhain
■und Nidda" 11 September, 1626 4to. 1626, on paper

486 Hieronymus (B.) Excerpta quaedam de Epistolis B. Hieronymi

4itO. SiEC. XI. ON TELLUM

On the last leaf a later possessor of this manuscript has written a Recipe " ad
curandum dolorem occulorum," with a notice " excerptum est 1439
Mogunciae." This manuscript, consisting of 130 leaves, contains the most
important epistles of St. Hierome. The Greek words are finely written
in small Greek capital letters, and where these are transcribed in the Roman
character, they show that their pronunciation was then similar to that of
the present Greek. The numerical figures are all expressed according to
the Roman alphabetical system. (See facsimile.)

487 Hieronymi (Divi, " Episcopi Stridonensis ") Vita B. Hylarionis — Yitm

Sanctorum Patrum, calf folio. Sjsc. xv. on vellum

A fine manuscript on 160 leaves of very pure vellum with illuminated capitals
and the following colophon : " Anno clhi Millesimo Quadringentesimo
vigesimo tercio Reverendus in xpo pater ac dns dns Johannes Epus War-
mien hunc libru videlicet Vitas patru perme 7£ (Theobaldum Argentinum?)
scribi mandavit," after which there is a life of S. Hieronimus.

488 Hieronymi (B.) Vita B. Malchi 4to. Sjec. xv. on paper

With the name of the scribe " Iste liber est mei petri andree filius q. s. nicolai
de bruscis, quando ad scolam magistri Garini (Ghiarini)" &c. Written by
a boy, probably a pupil of the celebrated Guarinus.

489 Hieronimo. Incomincia lo Transito del beato e glorioso Hieronimo

eximio doctore de la sancta Chiesia. Et in prima la epistola de
beato Eusebio de la Morte de esse san<;to hieronimo

4tO. S,EC. XV. (1461) ON PAPER

With the following colophon: uFinita et scritta he questa opera la quale se chiama
il transito del glorioso sancto Jeronimo dottore eximio de la sanctissima chiesia

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da Frate Valentino da Varese del Ordene da Frati Menori de Observancia
lanno del segnore 1461, 4 di de Marzo <£c." This manuscript contains the
Vita ed il Transito di San Hieronimo, (the Vita e la Fine being first in the
manuscript, but second in the edition) as contained in the edition of Venice
1473, in 4to., but with many important variations. For instance at the
end of the Vita et la Fine we find :

Manuscript. Edition.

" Adunchabona cossa he ad desiderare " Adoncha bona cossa e desiderare la

la temptacione. II gui dardone saspecta tentatkme ; in cui guidardone se aspecta
Xpo in cielo. Et ello per la maledictione da Christo in cielo e degli per la male-
grave non he mutato per la divina laude. ditione grave non ce mutato per la
Morite Sancto Jeronimo intorno ad li divina laude. Finis."
anni del nostro Signore Jesu Xpo tre-
cento. Ad honore et laude sia de Dio
et gloria impio et forteza. In secula
seculorum amen."

490 Hildeberti (Episcopi Turonensis) Incipiunt Versus de Sacramentis

(Liber de Concordia veteris ac novi Sacrificii elegiaco metro)

small 4ito. SiEC. xi-xii. on vellum

This manuscript was certainly written during the life of Hildebert, or shortly
after the death of that celebrated Father of the Church, as the handwriting
resembles rather that of the end of the eleventh century than that of the
beginning of the twelfth. This manuscript belonged to Pithou, and (as well
as the Nos. 104 and 431 of the present Catalogue) was sold at the Duchess
of Berry's Sale (No. 2436 bis), as being of the eleventh century, which
may be the case as Hildebert was born in 1057. (See facsimile. J

491 Hilduinis Abbatis Ccenobii S. Dionysii in Francia Vita et

Passio, S. Dionysii, Episcopi Parisiensis, et Sociobum ejus —
Revelatio quae ostensa est Sancto Papse Stephano et Memoria de
Consecratione Altaris Sanctorum Petri et Pauli quod est situm ante
sepulchrum sanctissimi Dionysii Sociorumque ejus, qua? revelatio et
consecratio acta est v. Kal. Aug. dccliiii — Vita Sancti Symeoishs

TbEYIBENSIS AUCTOBE OtLOH MONACHO 4*tu. SiEC. xi. ON YELLUM

This venerable and important manuscript is elegantly written in Carlovingian
characters, and is certainly in the autograph of Otloh the monk, as may be
seen from the dedication in his handwriting at the end. As he describes
himself as being present at the death of St. Symeon and celebrating his
funeral rites with two other brothers, he was probably at that time a Benedic-
tine Monk of some Abbey situated only a short distance from the Saint's
Cell. The date of the Saint's death is not given, but as Otloh distinctly
states that S. Symeon died whilst Poppo was Bishop of Treves, it must
have occurred somewhere between the years 1016 and 1047, the time
in which that prelate is stated by Hontheim to have ruled the Diocese.
At the end of the life of St. Symeon Otloh dedicates his work to St.
Boniface :

" Presbiter et monachus Otloh quiclam vocitatus
Sancte tibi librum Bonifaci tradidit istum."

llilduinus, Abbot of St. Denis, is supposed to have been the originator of
the legend of St. Denis carrying his head under his arm for nearly two
miles after it was cut off, but this story is probably much older as the
author professes to have abridged the life from writings, both Greek
and Latin, existing in his Monastery, and would hardly have dared to have
forged such a miracle which, if previously not recorded, must have aroused
the suspicions of even Lewis the Pious, for whom and by whose order the
account was written. (See also No. 626, in the present Catalogue).
Respecting this Otloh (or Othlo) monachus, whose autograph work and
dedication we have here (as in No. 748 of the present Catalogue), see
Fabricius (Bib/. Lot. Med. vol. V. p. 183), Oudinus (Script. Ecckz. vol. II,
p. 523), and Hontheim (Hist. Tr erirens. vol. J, p. 351). This life of St.

106 THE LIBEI MANUSCBIPTS.

Symeon by Otloh has remained quite unknown to all the authors that we
have been able to peruse, although they quote the life of St. Boniface as
well as those of St. Nicolas, St. Wolfgang and St. Firminus, by the same
writer. (See facsimile.)

492 Htppocratis Aphorismi, G-rsBce 4fo. Sjec. xvi. on paper

With the name of an ancient owner who very likely was also the Scribe : " Hie
liber est mei Sebastiani Magistri Antonii de Beneveniis kcu Koivas rwv <pt\a)v."
Antonio Benivieni, who died hi 1502, was a celebrated physician and a
friend of Politian and Marsilius Ficinus. Mazzuchelli, who gives the
pedigree of Antonio Benivieni, was not aware of this son Sebastiano.

493 Historic selectse et G-enesis Ethnica ex Pausauia, Strabone, &c.

folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper

The Historian selectse contain lives of Polycrates, Democedes, Syloson, Pisis-
tratus, Othryades, Deioces, Cyrus, Croesus, Thrasybulus, Periander, Amasis,
Darius, Rhampsinitus, Anacharsis, Zamolxis, Zopyrus, Artemisia, Miltiades,
Xerxes, Gelon, &c, gathered from Greek writers. The Genesis Ethnica
is a most learned explanation of the names occurring in Pausanias, Strabo,
&c. The work is unpublished and anonymous, but its author was un-
doubtedly an excellent scholar.

494 Hobbes (Thomas) Leviathan, original MS. of this celebrated work,

dated May 9th, 1640, calf gilt folio. S^c. xviii. on paper

There are at the beginning the initials T. H. being those of the author in his
autograph, and some corrections probably also in his handwriting.

495 HoMiLiiE SS. Patrum in Evangelia IV. folio. SiEc. viii. on yellum

This truly venerable volume contains a collection of Sermons on the Gospel
for each Saint's day, commencing with that of St. Stephen. These Homi-
lies are by Saints Fulgentius, Severianus, Hieronymus, Augustinus, Am-
brosius, Gregorius Magnus, and Maximus, and by the Venerable Bede.
The volume also contains " Relatio Egesippi de Jacobi Justi Passione;"
" Sermo B. Serapionis de octo Vitiis principalibus ;" " Sermo Johannis
Episcopi," &c. This manuscript, written in large rude Carlovingian
characters, with some mixture of uncial letters (the whole of the rubrics and
quotations being in large uncial or rustic capitals, generally in red, with
some large and rude initials,) belonged formerly to the celebrated Abbaye
de Luxeuii, in France, and contains at the beginning a very elaborate
description of its contents by the learned Benedictine Dom Victor Perrin,
Keeper of the Records of the Abbey, who therein states that this manu-
script is of the eighth or ninth century ; and it is so rudely written that
certainly it is not later than the second portion of the eighth century.
Most probably at the period in which it was written, this volume was used
as a church service book, and it is well known how difficult it is now
to find old manuscripts of that kind — so important for the history of the
liturgy — which have not been worn out by frequent use. This volume
contains also several additions, such as "hymni" with the old music, &c,
written by different hands during the ninth and tenth centuries. On the
tenth leaf of the manuscript there is a note very probably written in the
ninth century, and relating to an old inscription, which we think proper
to give here :

" Has litteras in lapidibus sultas, ita inveninus extra positas.
Luxovico. et. Brixiae. g. ivl.

FlKMAR. IVS. V.S.L.M."

Several Manuscripts described in this Catalogue came from the ancient
library of the Abbaye de Luxeuii (see Nos. 140, 356, 769, 891, etc., in the
present Catalogue), which, as is well-known, was founded by the Irish St.
Columban, who iirst settled at Luxeuii, the inhabitants surrounding which
were almost barbarians, and where the remains of a Roman colony (statues,
inscriptions, etc.) were scattered about the forest. It is curious to find
in the present manuscript, written perhaps a century or a century and a

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half only after the foundation of that abbey, the mention of an inscription
which reminds us of the state in which that country was found by St.
Columban. Respecting the travels of St. Columban, and the British literary
influence exerted through him in France, Switzerland and Italy, (which
influence* accounts for the English or Anglo-Saxon appearance of several
manuscripts described in the present Catalogue, which were perhaps copied
on the continent), see the Life of St. Columban (No. 269, in the present
Catalogue), the Prolegomena of 0. Connor to the Rerum Hibemicarum
Scriptores, the Lives of the Saints by the Rev. A. Butler, and especially
the celebrated History of Latin Christianity (vol. II. p. 100), by the Rev. H.
Milman . (See facsimile.)

496 Homili^: Hieronimi, Leonis, GtRegorii, Bedje, &c. nee non lectiones

veterum officiorum
original binding, with brass bosses, corners and clasps

large fol. S.EO. x.-xi. OK telltjm

This venerable manuscript, which came from the celebrated monastery of Stavelot
(Liber Monasterii Stapulensis), is written on 263 leaves, in double columns,
in large Carlovingian characters, and is invaluable for liturgical history.
It contains a great number of large capitals ornamented with the most
beautiful drawings, of such pure and elegant taste as to render it certain
that we never have seen anything more beautiful amongst manuscripts of
this early period. These drawings have so close a resemblance to the
Anglo-Saxon style (as will be seen by merely comparing them with the
plate XXVI of the first volume of the well-known work, A complete View
of the Manners, etc., by Strutt,) that we are induced to believe that they
were either made in England, or by English artists on the Continent.
(See facsimile).

497 Homillx Dominicales et in Festis Sanctorum 4±to. Sjec. xiv. on paper

498 Honestis (Christophori de, " de Bononia") Liber de Venenia

4to. S^c. xv. (1457) on paper

From the library of Al. Padoani, with his name on the titlepage. This manu-
script has the name of the scribe and date : " Scriptus per me dompnum lucam
peri de pergida ad petitionem Magistri Ghirardi de forsinfronio sub annis
Domini mcccclvii et die xv maii." At the end are inserted 33 leaves
filled with old medical recipes, all written also during the XVth century.
Fantuzzi, in his " Notizie degli Scrittori Bolognesi," (vol. VI, p. 180),
mentions this work as unpublished.

499 Horace. A Translation into English Verse 4*to. SvEO. xix.

500 Horatii Flacci (Q.) Liber Epodon, cum Vita

old French red morocco, gilt edges 8vo. Sjsc. xv. (1454) on telltjm
A splendid specimen of Italian caligraphy, having the heads of each poem
and the side references in letters of gold. The first page, having the
initial illuminated in gold and colours, is surrounded by an elegant border,
in the bottom compartment of which are the arms of the owner. At the
end is the name of the scribe and date thus : " Librium hum Laurentius
Petrini Films et Bellanteai Domus suis manibus scripsit Ano M.CCCCLini."
Beneath this is the following autograph memorandum : " Emi ego Celsus
Cittadinus a Pablo Paulinio Librorum veterum venditore die XX Januarii 1603,
julios duodecim" (Six shillings). This Celso Cittadini was the celebrated
author who was born at Rome, in 1553, and died at Siena in 1627, where
he had collected all sorts of rare books, manuscripts, coins, etc. It seems
impossible to find a more elegant manuscript of Horace than this.

501 HoR.E Diurnje, cum Calendario

in the original oak boards folio. SiEC. xiv. on vellum

Written in a very bold character, with illuminated capitals, having the rubrics
in red ink. Half the first leaf, which probably contained a miniature, is
cut off. The Calendar is very valuable for rectifying mistakes in the

108 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

various Martyrologies respecting the Saints-Days. Besides the fly-leaves,
which contain musical notes, the manuscript contains also some eccle-
siastical music. At the end there are several tabulae for the epacta, the
golden number, etc. All the numerous figures are in the old Roman style.

502 Horartum, cum Calendario

in the original binding Svo. Sjec. xv. on paper

Written by a German Scribe, who has added many of the tunes on the margins.
A curious fact is that, the hymns in verses are written like prose. Amongst
the saints, there occurs Saint Thomas of Canterbury.

503 Huetii (Petri Danielis) et aliorum Poemata Mo. SiEC. xvii. on paper

In the autograph of Huet, Bishop of Avranches, one of the most learned
prelates of his time, who has copied here a great number of Latin poems,
even those in his own praise, written by other learned men of his time.

504 Hugonis Floriacensis GeSTA Francorum, S^C. xv. — Trithemii

Compendium de Origine Francorum, S^ec. xvi. — Vita Friderici
Bellicosi, S^sc. xvi. — Duisburgensis Civitatis, quod vetus Touto-
burgurn est, Primordia et Diplomata (with an account of the English
Exiles under Q. Mary finding Refuge) Sjec. xvi. — Ursprung und
Beschreibung der Stadt und Freyherr Weinsberg (containing the
original story from which Burger took his Women of Weinsberg, who
each took on their backs a Husband, Father or Brother, when 'per-
mitted by Capitulation to remove as much as each could carry of her
treasure) $mc. xvii. — Anfang des Hussitischen Krieges, 1426, S^c
xviii. — Maximiliani Imp. Epistola ad Fideles Pragenses et cseteras
Civitates Bohemia? Germanice et Latine, autograph of his Secre-
tary Ziegler, 1517 — Friederick III, Bunda mit Frankreich
uud Brief au Bischof Rudolph von Wircenig (respecting the dis-
graceful withholding Anne of Bretagne, the Bride of his son
Maximilian) with the autograph endorsement of the Emperor
Maximilian, S^c. xvi. — Krieqsordnung wieder den Tiircken zu
Kaiser Siegismunds Zeiten, with autograph endorsement of the Em-
peror Maximilian, S^ec. xvi. — Poli (Reginald! Cardinalis) Epistola
ad Csesarem in qua Legatum Card. Contareni commendat, Homed,
1541 — Copia eines Schreibens Kaisers Carls an die Wirtenberger
in Betreff des Schmalkaldischen Bundes, entirely in the handwriting
of Melchior Peinzing, the author of Theuerdanck, ivith cor-
rections and endorsement in the autograph of his master (after-
wards the Emperor) Maximilian ; a most interesting and beautiful
specimen of the caligraphy of this celebrated poet and his patron,
and a most desirable companion to the Theuerdanck, Sjec. xvi. —
Carmen Satyricum Germanice et Latine, endorsed " Carmen
Glareani," in the autograph of the Emperor Maximilian — Lied des
Kaisers Carl, endorsed by the Emperor Maximilian, 1546 — Pas-
quillus in diversas Europe Personas et Senatus, entirely in the
autograph of the Emperor Maximilian, concluding ivith " Hatispone
descripsi VI Julii, Anno mdxxxxvi. in Comitiis"— Wirtenpergisch
Vertrag 1547, and various Documents of both sides, endorsed by the
Emperor Maximilian — Sachsischer Vertrag 1547, endorsed by the
same — Copia des Schreibens Herzog Friedrich von Sacbsen an die
Bohmer 1547 — Maximilians Beschluss in Betreif der Strafte der
Prager Stande wegen ihrer Biindnisses^ autograph document of this
Emperor, dated 1547 — Oratiuncula Augustanorum apud Csesareni
Carol urn V, cum liesponsione Caesaris Germanice, endorsed by the
Emperor Maximilian, 1547 — Epistola duo P. Melanchthonis et

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 109

G. Maieri ad D. Martinum Bucerum, 1547— Neue Zeitung so der
Regierung zu Ennshaim zukhomrnen von Margraff Albrecht yon
Brandenburg, endorsed by the Emperor Maximilian, S^ec. xvi. —
Philipp Landgraf zu Hessen Schreiben an die Rom. Kayser Maj. in
Betreff des Interims, endorsed by the Emperor Maximilian, 1548 —
Herzog Johanna Friedrichs Antwort an Kais. Maj. in Betreff des
Interim, 1549 — Gedicht bey Wiedereinsetzung Herzog Johann
Friedrich von Sachsen, SiEC. xvi. — Versus Stigelii (ni fallor) de
Duce Sax. Ioa. Friderico — Ferdinand Romischer Hungerischer
und Bohemischer Kunig an die Breslauer in Betreff d. Schmalkald
Bundes, endorsed by the Emperor Maximilian, 1549 — Ferdinand, &c.
Befehl in Betreff der Lutherischen Biicher an die Statt Wells, a very
important document, with the Emperor's autograph signature and
countersign, Wien, 1551 — Kurtzer Extract aus der Handhmg von
Passau, 1552, with the following endorsement in the Emperor Maxi-
milian's autograph, "Von G-eorgen Miltzen Reichsschreiber zu
Begenspurg von Passau geschicht," 1552 — Betder Stennde Sachsen
und Meyssen Antwurt und Bedenken auf den Fiirtrag zu Thurgau,
1552 — Echo de prsecipuis Sectariorum Fructibus, Poema, SiEC. xvi. —
Melanchthonis (P.) Schedula " Sebastiano Trombnero mittit Jo.
Walthofer," autograph of Walthofer, 1561— Alerecbzt Hertzog von
Baiern Befehl der Religion halben, mit Antwort von Cristoff von
Kutcher zu Ollshof, 1552 — Responsio auff die Spriich der Bibel von
Jesuiten ausgezogen dariiber D. Luther falsationis beschultigt wird,
an important theological document, S^ec. xvi. — Lagi (Friderici)
Annotationes ad Agendam Austriacam, in the autograph of the author,
S.ec. xvi. — Regulius (Martinus) liber die Agenda Austriaca, auto-
graph letter of fourteen pages to the Emperor Maximilian, by whom
it is endorsed, Sjec. xvi. — Holtzshuer (Carolus) ad Status Imperii
(pro Bello Turcis inferendo) in the author's autograph, SiEC. xvi. —
Lesincii (Cipriani) Urthail nach Mathematischer Kunst und
Rechnung iiber d. Expedition wider den Turcken, in the autograph
of the author, 1566— Khosinger (Steffanus) zwey Trostschreiben zu
der Grafin "Wittfrawen Magdalena Khoteporthin, two long auto-
graph epistles, 1566 — Decretum per Imperatorem contra librum
G. Ederi " die Evangelische Inquisition," 1573 — Gedichte (Saty-
rische) gegen den Papst und den Turcken, S^ic. xvi. — Prjesagia
sacra comprehendentia Statum Belli Austriaci, S^ec. xvi. — Anhalt
und Haideburgerische aufgerichte Kirchenordnung, S^ec. xvi. — Das
Collnisch Evangelium Johannis am 2 April und Wienerischer
Hofspasquill, S^c. xvi. — Die Fursten im Eeich Beimen (Satire
against Spain) Sjec. xvi. — Papistisch Religions Eide zu Passau,
endorsed by the Emperor Maximilian, SyEC. xvi. — Coneession, Fragen
fur Bayern, (Esterreich, &c. 1579 — Briee von der Landtschaft Crain
iiber N. Frischlino, original and important document addressed to
the Diet of Augspurg respecting the celebrated Frischlin, 15S3 —
Beschreibung wie Heinrich III. von Frankreich zu Venedig sich
aufbehalten hat, apparently an official report to the Emperor, 1574 —
Christian II. Herzog zu Sachsen Ausschreiben (Circular respecting
the permission given by him for those prof essing the Confession of Augs-
burg to reside in his dominions) 1603 — Duces Electores Saxonise
poetice descripti, SvEC. xvi. — Trias Romana (Pasquillus) SyEC. xvi. —
Ermanung und Trost in der Verfolgungszeit, with a curious Epi-
graph by Dr. Martin Luther, SyEC. xvi. — Prognostica Anthonii
Torquati von Ferrara und Jacob Hartmann iiber d. Turcken, 1545 —
Giopardo del Regimento di Adamo Prognostica Latine et Germanice,

110 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

S.EC.XVI. — Soetilegium benicorumTunmltuum, 1566 — Pasquillus
Pragse affixus, 1578 — Eeotemata Iambica, StEC. xyi. — Prophi-
ceivngen und Prognosticationen, a curious collection of early
Prophecies, &c. in German and Latin, 1578-80 — Mathias wie er
zu Romischen Keyser erwehlt und 24 Junii 1612 gekronet worden,
mit Namen der anwesenden Fiirsten neben den Churfiirsten und
welche Grafen und Herrn zu Rittern geschlag worden, 1612 —
Verzeichniss des Herrnstand (with the date of their patent of
Nobility), 1609 — Extracts from Aventinus, &c. respecting Persons
with large Families, S^ec. xvii. — List of Towns and Villages in
Bohemia, with number of Inhabitants, Sjec. xvii. — (Estereichische
Stande iiber d. Bohmische Unruhen, 1618 — Prognosticate antiqua,
Sjec. xti. — Poemata varia Latina, containing Autograph Poems,
with the signatures of their authors, viz: I. Leandri, C. D. Scepperus
(1526), Henricus Baro a Staremberge (to _P '. Melanchthon his tutor),
J. Hildebrand (1601), J. Linckius (1596), M. Zuberus Poeta Lau-
reatus, J.M.Daeberlinus, J.N. Sigmar von Schliisselberg, M.Roslerus,
H. Victor (1599), G-.Werbigius, Johannes Catsius (1595), Matthseus
Anomaeus, J. L. Brassicanus, M. S. Brassicanus, I. Cargius (1598),
N. Harttman (1600), A. Camerarius, J. Cyprianus, J. Sennerus
(1600), P. Gundelius (1530), F. Koherus (1599), G. Logi {including
three on Queen Elizabeth), E. Nidermeyer, GL Saxenrhetor, A.
Schwartz, C. Wideman, V. "Winzemius, J. "Witer, &c. &c. — Ge-
dichte von J. N. Sigmar zu Schliisselberg (1591), H. Victor, &c. —
Brassicani (Jo. Amb.) Oratio, autograph MS. — Olympic Morataa
Epistola ad Flaccium Illyricum, 1553 — Von dem Leiden und Sterben
Jesu Christi, 1590 — Mottoes adopted by noble and learned Men,
from 1534 to 1563 (a large and very curious collection) S^:c. xvi.
pigskin in 1 vol. folio. S^ic. xvi-xvii. on paper

A most extraordinary collection of historical documents of the highest im-
portance, the majority of which appear to have belonged to the Emperor
Maximilian IE. (Son of Ferdinand I.) as is clear from their being endorsed
in his autograph. This Monarch was a pupil of Wolfgang Severus, an
ardent admirer of the Lutheran tenets, and became so imbued with his
tutor's spirit as to have been willing to embrace the Protestant faith had
he not been persuaded to the contrary. His sentiments however were
well known, and when in 1558 he was elected unanimously King of the
Romans the Roman-Catholics looked forward with dread, and the Pro-
testants with intense desire to his becoming Emperor. When this event
however took place in 1564, for political reasons, he declared himself a
Catholic, but expressed his intention of protecting the Protestants by his
tolerance and acting on the terms agreed upon in the Passau Treaty of
1552, which he was mainly instrumental in procuring for the Reformers.
It would be useless to expatiate any more upon the importance of this
volume which, besides containing a great number of pages in the hand-
writing of the Emperor Maximilian and of the most celebrated
Germans of his time, is full of interesting documents of the most intimate
and confidential character. The Gesta Francorum at the beginning of this
volume, attributed to Hugo Floriacensis, were published by Freher, and
republished by Dom Bouquet in his Scniptorcs (vol. II. p. 542), but the
text contained in the present manuscript differs considerably from the two
texts given by Dom Bouquet.

505 Hugonis de Folieto (Cardinalis) Tractatus de Claustro Corporis et
Anima) folio. S.ec. xv. on vellum

This fine and valuable manuscript was originally in the library of the "Fratrum
Praedicatorum de Venecia.1' This work was wrongly attributed to Hugo

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de Sancto Victore, and published in his opera. Hugo de Folieto, a French
divine, was made a Cardinal in 1140, and he is supposed to have written an
interesting work, De avium Natura, much celebrated during the middle
ages.

506 Hunt, Epitome Grotii de Jure Pacis et Belli, autograph manuscript,

with Dedication to Dr. ClerJce, President of Magdalen

4ito. S^c. xvii. ON PAPER

From an autograph note of Dr. Routh prefixed, it appears that Hunt was ad-
mitted by Dr. Clerke, 24th November 1685, to the Study of the Law, and
that having taken his degree of LL.D. he died in 1699, aged 41, and was
buried in the Chapel of Magdalen College.

507 Hyginii (Caii Jtjlii) Astronomicon— Sacrobosco (Joannes de) de

Spera — Teattato di Abbaco e di Geometria col lunario in Lingua
Volgare, con Figure — Manus Music ales — Tractatus de duodecim
signis et alia astronomica cum figuris 4*to. S^:c. xv. on paper

An exceedingly interesting collection. Nothing is more uncommon than to find
manuscripts of the Astronomicon, which is so important for the history of
astronomy. Two only are mentioned in the great " Catalogus Bibl. Reg.
Paris," and three by Haenel. This present manuscript has been corrected
by some learned man of the fifteenth century, who has written the variations
in the readings on the margins. It is chiefly important on account of the
number of the stars which are here assigned to the several constellations,
this number being often different from that which is given in the printed
editions, so as to induce us to believe that the disappearance of ancient
stars, or the appearance of new ones, was more frequent than is generally
imagined. At the end of the work of Sacrobosco (called here, J. De Sacro
Busto Anglico,) we find about six pages following on the same subject, and
apparently by the same author, beginning " Et quia deo auxiliante iam
premisimus quod debent premitti de utriusque motibus circuli nunc inci-
piamus rememorari loca terrse habitabilis." The Trattato d 'Abbaco which
follows, contains several hundred pages, written by another hand, in the
fifteenth century, with numerous coloured figures, and is exceedingly curious
and important, for besides a considerable treatise of practical geometry,
land surveying and guaging, it contains several curious algebraical pro-
blems, one of which is the following : " Uno uomo a danari in borsa e fra
se medesimo piglia lo \ di queli danari e pone sopra queli danari, poi
piglia lo J di tutti queli danari e pone sopra, e poi piglia el quinto di queli
danari e pone sopra esi e da ultimo conta queli danari e trovasi libbre 12 :
quanti danari foro prima queli che avea in borsa?" This highly interest-
ing work is without any apparent order, the last chapter being De partire
roots. The last work on astronomy (with very curious figures) is written in
the same hand, although in a smaller handwriting than the Abbaco, and has
on the page immediately before the Aries the date of 1482. This interest-
ing manuscript belonged to Alessandro Padovani, in the sixteenth century,
and in the following century to some learned inhabitant of Faenza, who
wrote on the margins of the Abbaco several memoranda of a private cha •
racter, coupled with mathematical problems, &c. At the beginning a
librarian of theCostabili Library, from which it came, has described this most
interesting work as "Algebra, trattato di, Antico e poco interessante." (! ! !)

508 1bn-al-Wardi ('Omar) The " Kharidat-al-'Ajaib" (the Pearl of Won-

ders), a Treatise of general Geography, Natural History, &c. in Arabic
red sheep 4tto. S^:c. xtiii. on paper

This important manuscript was copied Anno Hegirae 1115 (A. D. 1702). Ibn-
al-Wardi, a most celebrated Arabic geographer, lived in the fourteenth
century. Of this valuable work only a few extracts have been published,
but it is frequently mentioned by the best historians of geography, such as
the Viscount de Santarem, M. Lelewel, &c. This Arabic author not
only describes Asia and Africa, but also Turkey in Europe and Christian
Europe {including England) in this work. In the preface Ibn-al-WardI

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says that he has taken his work from several authors: Khwajah Naslr-al-
Tusi, Batlimus (Ptolemy), Balkhi, Mas'udl, Ibn-al-Athir-al-Jarzi (author
of the " Ajalb-al-Makhlfikat1'), &c, &c. Des Guignes has given a minute
account of this celebrated work in the second volume of the Notices et Ex-
traicts. At the end of the present volume there is an Arabic poem on the
resurrection day.

509 Ibn Ishak (Shaikh) the " Eutuh-Misr," a History of the Conquest

of Egypt, in Arabic 4<to. S^ec. xvii. on paper

510 Ibn I shak (Shaikh) the " Eutuh-Misr :" A History of the Conquest

of Egypt, in Arabic 4<to. Smc. xix. on paper

Both the present and the preceding manuscript contain the same important
work which is different from the work of the author, commonly known
under the name of Wakadi, which was published in 1825 by the learned
Hamaker. Ibn Ishak says that in composing his work he consulted many
authors, amongst whom he quotes Wakadi, Dawl, Ibn Abbas, and many
others.

511 Ibn SIna (Shaikh Abu Bais 'AH Ibn Sina) " Kamin-al-Tibb : " a Trea-

tise of Physics, Medicine, Anatomy, &c.

two folio volumes. S.ec. xvii. on paper

Besides the medical works of the celebrated Avicenna, these two volumes
contain much additional matter on the same subject. The second volume
in which is the " Mufradat Kanun " (on simple medicaments), was copied
Anno Hegirae 1113 (A.D. 1690).

512 Illicino (Bernardo Lapini) Vita di Honorata — In Proditores, Eithmi

Italici 4ito. SiEC. xv. on paper

From the Library of S. Mariae Victoris, of Vercelli. Bernardo Illicino, or " Da
Montalcino," was a physician who flourished about 1470. This Life of
Madama Onorata was published at Milan in 1 843, from this very manu-
script, but neither the Italian verses nor the additional matter which in
this manuscript occupies 21 pages. Illicino was chiefly celebrated for his
commentary on Petrarch, first published at Bologna in 1475.

513 Immtjnitatis Ecclesiastics Tractatus folio. S.ec. xviii. on paper

A very learned Treatise on the subject extending to thirteen chapters.

514 'Inatat Allah. The " Bahar-Danish," or Garden of Knowledge, an

Oriental Romance in Persian Prose, bound 4<to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

A very elegantly written manuscript of these amusing tales, which were
translated into English by Jonathan Scott, and published by him at
Shrewsbury in 1799. The author, Tnayat Allah, of Delhi, lived in the
beginning of the seventeenth century, during the reign of the Emperor
Shah Jahan, to whom this work is dedicated. No Mohammedan or Hindoo
gentleman is considered thoroughly acquainted with Persian, unless he
has read the Bahar Danish.

515 Innocentils III. Liber de Miseria sive de Vilitate Conditionis hu-

manae editus ab Innocentio tercio Lotario ab auctoris nomine vocato
vellum Mo. Svec. xv. on paper

Pope Innocent III. was the contemporary of our King John, whom he excom-
municated. The work is divided into three parts : the last chapter of the
second part, " De ornatu personse, mensse, et domus," contains curious
details about the cosmetics employed at that time, and gives a minute
description of the painted table cloths, knives with ivory handles, beds
with silk covers, etc. which shows that already, in the Xllth century,
luxury in domestic life was carried to a great excess in Italy.

515* Innocentius III. (seu Lotharius Diaconis) liber qui dicitur Contemptus
Mundi sive de Yilitate condicionis humana?
old red morocco, gilt edges 4<to. Sjec. xv. on paper

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51G Innocenzo XL Rellatione della Scomunica fulminata dalla S.N.S.
Papa Innocentio XI contro il Marchese di Laverdin, Ambasciatore
in Roma del Re Cristianissimo, con Riposta e con Protesta di quel
Re sul niedesimo Oggetto folio. Sjec. xvii. and xviii. on paper

Attached to this interesting manuscript are various squibs and political dis-
courses, together with " Una Relazione delle Funzione fatte in Roma alia
Morte di Innocenzo XI." It contains also secret informations from the
Emperor to Tassinet (his ambassador at Rome, 1701), and a forged
Retractatio dementis XIV, dated 1774, after the suppression of the Jesuits.

517 Inquisition. Inquisitionis Processus

original binding folio. Sjec. xvi. (1511) on vellum

This curious and official manuscript contains several processes made from the
middle of the XlVth century to the date of the manuscript by the Inqui-
sition of Barcelona against various religious persons, for holding peculiar
opinions concerning the divinity of Jesus Christ and the real Presence. Early
original processes of the Inquisition, like this, are of the rarest occurrence.

518 Inquisition. Inquisitionis Processus contra Elenam Orsini,

Abbatissam de Castro, pro Fornicatione cum Episcopo Cas-

TRENSI folio. S^C. xvi. ON PAPER

This most curious volume contains the original record of the process instituted by
the Inquisition against the Abbess of Castro (Elena of the great Roman family
Orsini) on account of her having been the mistress of Francesco Cittadino,
Bishop of Castro. This manuscript, consisting of about 500 pages,
seems to have been a portion of a larger volume, containing apparently
other processes of the Inquisition, but is complete in itself as regards
this trial, which commences on leaf 181 and ends on leaf 417,
beginning with the first information (dated Sept. 13th, 1573) to the 5th of
May, 1574, when the prosecution was stopped by authority. The exami-
nations are in Italian, and full of the most extraordinary details of debauchery.
The Autograph Signatures of all the parties and witnesses, including
those of the Abbess and the Bishop themselves are, in this remarkable
volume, subscribed to the depositions. A recent French novel, the Abbesse
de Castro, is based on the facts so minutely described in the present unpub-
lished and hitherto unknown manuscript.

519 Inquisitione. Racconto cavato da Processi del Santo Officio di Roma

di diverse Heresie estirpate, et in particolare di quella del Padre
Aniello Arciero, di Suor Giulia de Marchi e di Gioseppe de Vicariis,
con la Forma dell' AbjuratioDi fatte in Roma da questi tre ultimi
l'Anno 1615, vellum 4<to. SvEC. xvii. on paper

A most interesting manuscript connected with the history of the Reformation
in Italy (especially in Naples), commencing with the heresies of Valdes,
Peter Martyr, B. Ochino, M. A. Flaminio, &c. This processo affords also
a fair specimen of the abominations which took place at that time in some
of the monasteries of Italy. For instance, at the end, it is stated that the
said Suora Giulia, having received a superior light with the " Dono della

Castita mediante d'un cingolo" (a belt), given to her from heaven, and

by her transmitted to others per via d'atti carnali, was so earnest in diffusing
her new doctrine, that, besides Father Aniello and a certain Giuseppe, she
had so many paramours, " che essendo tra l'altre una volte gravida non
sapeva da chi per esser stata con molti, e che per non scandalizzar i semplici
haveva procurato l'aborto."

520 Inquisitione. Scrittnre risguardanti if Tribunal del Santo Officio

folio. Sjsc. xvii. on paper

This manuscript relates to the attempt at establishing the Inquisition in Naples,
and its failure. It contains valuable historical documents on the subject.

I

114 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

521 Interests des Princes et Estats Svo. S^:c. xvii. on paper

A curious and interesting work to the English historian, as it treats of the
" Interest du Roy d'Espagne, du Pope, de la France, et de VEmpereur, sur
le Royaume d 'Angleterre," as well as of the " Interest du Nom de Roy de la
Grande Bretagne et Interest de V Angleterre sur la Normandie, Poictou7
Guienne, Languedoc, &c. et sur tout le Royaume de France" and also " sur
les Isles d"1 Isabella et de St. Domingo."

522 Isaac-Ben-Joseph, Sepher Mitzyoth Qaton. The small Book of

Precepts, in Hebrew, written by the Rabbi Isaac, son of the Rabbi
Joseph de Corbeil 4do. S-ec. xiv. on yellum

A very important manuscript, beautifully written by a German Scribe in the
Allemanic-Hebrew character, having the commencing word of each book
written in letters of gold within an ornament, illuminated in a very elegant
style, and having round the first page of each book grotesque borders,
likewise illuminated in gold and colours. In addition, each page through-
out the work is adorned with figures of men and women, animals of every
description and nondescripts, flourished with a pen filled with coloured
inks, in a truly grotesque manner, by a master of evidently no mean skill,
and rivalling almost, in spirit and execution, those admirable designs with
which Albert Durer and Lucas Cranach illustrated the celebrated manu-
scripts known as their Prayer-Book. Amongst these designs is one of the
hog, the unclean animal, which religious Jews look upon with horror, and
its introduction into a Book of Precepts is so strange a peculiarity, that
perhaps no other ancient Hebrew manuscript will be found to contain a
similar illustration. (See also No. 477 in the present Catalogue.)

This work, usually denominated Smaq from the initials of its Hebrew
title, is one of the greatest authorities with the Jews, (almost equal to
the Talmud itself,) and was written by the author at the intercession of
the Rabbis in France. He called it the small Book of Precepts, or
Columns of Captivity, to distinguish it from the Sepher Mitzvoth Gadol
(usually contracted into Smag) of Rabbi Moses of Kotsi, which contains
the whole of the Jewish laws, whilst the Smaq omits such as the Destruc-
tion of the Temple, and the Dispersion of the Jews, rendered no longer
practicable. This manuscript presents some remarkable variations from
the more modern transcripts and deserves attention. The entire work
is divided into seven parts, to correspond with the seven days of the week,
and with the seven columns which, according to Rabbinic authority,
support the world. CSee Bartholoccius, Bibl. Rabb. vol. IV. p. 316.) The
fact of this manuscript being (contrary to the Hebrew rites) decorated
with drawings of men and animals, and with borders of gold and colours,
is very singular. (See facsimile.)

523 Isidoei Hispalensis Libri Ethimologiarum

folio. S.EC. xi. ON YELLUM

A splendid Manuscript of this early Cyclopaedia of such Universal Knowledge
as could be acquired in the seventh century (arithmetic, geometry, astro-
nomy, &c), and indeed for the time a most wonderful compilation, written
upon stout vellum, with the capitals as well as diagrams painted in various
colours. It formerly belonged to the Abbatial Library De Camberone, each
sheet consisting of eight leaves being marked in consecutive order i, ii, iii,
&c, with the word De Camberone on each ; at the end is " Liber See Marie
de Cambe Roni." At the beginning and the end are various Latin sentences
and epigrams, and an abstract of the Chronicon of Sigebertus, in an ancient
handwriting. This fine and venerable manuscript commences with several
letters of Isidorus ad Braulionem followed by the answers. The chronicle
and the " tabulae astronomies " are full of numerical notes, all written accord-
ing to the alphabetical system of the ancient Romans, with some peculiar
abreviations to indicate the thousands. This manuscript contains a great
number of variations from the celebrated edition by Arevalo, printed at
Rome in 1798 (seven 4to. volumes), and several in the Chronicle (lib. v.) are

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very important. As an instance we give here the last words of the
chronicle from this manuscript compared with that edition :

Manuscript. Edition.

" V. dccc xxvi. Eraclius ann xxvi " Eraclius xvn. nunc agit imperii

huius quinto et quarto religiosissimi annum: iudaei in Hispania christiani

pincipis siseberti judei in Mspania X»ani efficiuntur. Residuum sextae astatis soli

efficiuntur. Residuum sexte etatis tempus Deo est cognitum."
soli do cognitu."

The arithmetical and geometrical diagrams of the third book, as well as
the curious signs called Notes Sententiarum, differ considerably from those in
the edition by Arevalo (vol. Ill, p. 33 et 130). The large astronomical and
geographical figures (Europe, Asia and Africa : the ancient world) in red
and black, are exceedingly curious, and they admirably illustrate the state
of science at the time of the manuscript. They perfectly agree with the
geographical figures of the same time, which we find in the elaborate and
well-known Geographie du Moyen-age, by M. Lelewel, and they afford a
strong proof of the great antiquity of this manuscript. These figures, which
in this volume are placed in the third and fourth books, are not in the
printed edition, and add much to the merit of this manuscript, which is
certainly as ancient as the celebrated Isidorian Codex (S^ec. xi.), of
which Rivautella has given a facsimile in his Catalogue Bill. Taurin.
(vol. II. p. 12). {See facsimile.)

524 Isidori, Episcopi Hispalensis, Libri Ethimologiarum xx. — Commen-

taeiys ad Syuibolum Apostoloruni, qui incipit " Funicolus triplex
difficile rumpitur" — Tabula inveniendi Pascham

folio. SJEC. XIV. ON VELLUM

A very elegantly written manuscript, adorned with numerous miniature paint-
ings for initial letters (mostly portraits, that in the first being the author's)
executed by an artist of the highest skill, each being accompanied
by an elegant and appropriate border. There are also an immense number
of capitals elegantly flourished in variegated inks, rendering this altogether
one of the finest manuscripts of this author ever offered for sale. The
Tabula ad inveniendam Pascham was added at the end after the manuscript
was written, and bears the date of 1393 in Arabic figures. As is well
known this Tabula is intended to resolve a celebrated problem of
Astronomy. This manuscript of the " Ethimologise " contains curious dia-
grams, peculiar signs for the notce digitorum and sententiarum, cyclic tabulae,
etc., but the whole of the numerical figures are here according to the
Roman alphabetical system. The numerous small illuminations contained
in this manuscript are in the best style of Italian art during the
fourteenth century, and afford curious information respecting the manners,
instruments, &c. of the geometricians, astronomers, agriculturists, &c. of
that period. By comparing this manuscript with the Arevalo edition, we
find, even at the beginning, important variations. We must also add that the
figures of the noke sententiarum, as well as the arithmetical and geometrical
diagrams of the third book differ considerably in this volume, both from
Arevalo's edition and the previous manuscript.

525 Isidoei Hispalensis Episcopi ee Stjmmo Bono Libri III.

4fo. Sjec. xi. on vellum

This manuscript belonged formerly to the celebrated library of Apostolo Zeno.
It is finely written in red and black, with a curious illumination at the
beginning. It appears to have been written in Spain, and from a note at
the end, dated 1517, seems to have been given to Matthew Bonci, canon of
Fabriano, by the Spanish soldiers, who in that year pillaged that town
so celebrated for its ancient manufactures of paper. (See facsimile.)

526 Isidoei Chronici Pars et de Vita et Obitu Patrum — Hieeontmi Liber

de viribus iliustribus ecclesiasticis, cum CoDtinuatione Gennadii

folio. SjSO. XV. ON PAPER

This manuscript, which was formerly in the collection of H.R.H. the Duke of

Sussex, and subsequently in that of Dr. Routh, President of Magdalen

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528

College, belonged originally to the College of Jesuits at Agen,near Toulouse.
These historical works are not the least important amongst the writings of
these three Fathers of the Church.

Isidori Hispaniensis Episcopi DifFerentiarum Patris Eilii et Spiritus
Sancti Liber. Item de Differentiis Verborum
red morocco, gilt edges 4tto. Sjec. xv. on paper

We see in Fabricius that the second work is that which Barthias intended to
publish from a manuscript.

Isidori Hispalensis Soliloquia seu Synonyma de Homine et Batione —

Liber utilis Exordiorum qui vocatur Centinus Hymnus ad B. Mariam

Virginem — Ex Libro Prophetiarum Magistri Beqinaldi Exoniensis

qui mortuus est Constantiae, 1433 — Cosmographia Isidori

calf, with the JPazzoni arms on sides Jolio, Sjzc. xv. on paper

The scientific work of Isidorus, the " Cosmographia swede Astris" is interesting,
both to the geographer and the astronomer, and is very seldom to be found
in manuscript. At the end of the chronicle which follows the de Astris,
there are important additions relating to the history of the Emperors of
Germany, the Norman Princes at Naples, the Kings of France (up to the
end of the thirteenth century), de regibus longobardicB, etc. This miscel-
laneous manuscript was written in Italy by different hands, and contains
some small portion in Italian. As a curious fact we mention, that the Latin
of the Hymnus is partially mixed with a sort of Venetian dialect. The
prophecies of Reginaldus Exoniensis (of Exeter), not mentioned by Fa-
bricius, are in verse with double rhymes.

529

Isma'il Ibn MakrI The " 'Unwan-al-Sharaf"

4do.

Sjec.

XVll. ON PAPER

It is very difficult to give an adequate idea of this extraordinary Arabic work,
in comparison with which the most complicated system of Acrostics would
appear child's-play. To try and explain something of the contents we sub-
join a diagram, showing how each page of the manuscript is arranged :

7 6 5 4 3 2 1

8
•8

8

Now the whole page being, as all the Arabic works are, written horizon-
tally from right to left, in those lines markegl 8 in the above figure, the
words (or letters) written on the perpendicular lines 1, 3, 5, 7, are in red,
while all the other words or letters contained in the columns 2, 4, 6, are
written in black. The distances and dimensions of each column are the
same throughout the various pages of the whole work. Now if, without
paying any attention to the various colours and columns we read the whole
page, and each consecutive page of the work, as every 'Arabic work is to
be read, in the horizontal lines 8, from right to left, we find a treatise on
theology; but if we read the whole of the words or letters only contained
in column 1, perpendicularly, continuing, from one page to the following,
to read only what is contained hi the said 1st column of each page, we
find that these columns contain a treatise on prosody. Similarly, by
reading only what is contained in column 3 as well as in the columns
3 of the following pages, we have a work on chemistry, while in the
columns 5, we find a work on astronomy. Read in the same manner, the
contents of each of the columns 2, 4, 6, form a distinct work, and this
extraordinary system of different works existing together, is carried
regularly through the whole manuscript. It is therefore no wonder to
find the author stating that he is so certain of nobody being able to

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produce a work of a similar kind, that in case a man should succeed
in doing so, he (the author) would be ready to deliver to that man his
beloved wife, !

This astonishing work is described by Haji Khalfa (Vol. IV, p. 272).
The present manuscript, beautifully written, with curious ornaments, was
copied by Mohammed, in the mosque Aksa, Anno Hegirae 1108 (a.d. 1 695),
and was left for the benelit of the public by Haji Ahmad Pasha, and pre-
sented to the College of Nur Ahmad.

530 Isockatis Orationes qtjjsdam, Gr^ce (nempe Evagoras ; ad De-

monicum ; Adversus Sophistas ; Nicocles)
vellum folio. S^ic. xiv. on paper

Very distinctly written, about the end of the fourteenth century, and apparently
a transcript of an excellent text with various readings from other manu-
scripts on the margins. The Nicocles is very rarely to be found in
manuscript, and, in fact, manuscripts of any of the Orationes of Isocrates
in Greek are so scarce, that Haenel in his travels, found only one Greek
codex with a single Oration of Isocrates, and that at Lisbon.

531 Isocrate Orazione a Demonico ; traduzione detfca nell' Accademia

della Crusca dal Sig. Tommaso Buonaventuri detto l'Aspro, Sjec. xviii.
— Discorso sulla Precedenza che pretendono gli Arnbasciatori di
varie Potenze sopra D. Taddeo Barberini Prefetto di Roma et
Risposta.del Prefetto, 1644 — Discorso di M. Aldobrandini Nunzio
Pontificio a Venezia, 1714 — Buonarruotti (Michel Angelo) Origine
del Ferragosto, Cicalata, 1594 — Franceschi (Lorenzo) Orazion
funebre in Lode dei Polli, Cicalata, 1592 — Lode delle Pianelle,
Cicalata — Chimentelli (Valerio) Lodi dell' Insalata, Cicalata, 1650
— Orazione letta nell' Accademia sull' Accettazione d'una Carica e
sul Toscano Piorentino Idioma — Ostelli (Franco) Orazione funebre
in Morte del S. Giulio Cesare Pallavicino — Salvini (Anton Maria)
Sermone di S. Benedetto e Sermone di S. Luca, 1676-77 — Dolleea
(Don Pantaleone) Panegirico di S. Francisco di Paola, 1698 —
Disputa se nel Giovedi Santo si debba lavare i piedi a 12 o 13
Poveri — Parole alia Lavanda di Giovedi Santo, 1679 — La pitj bella
e prodigiosa di tutte le Penitenti — Riisrucciisri (Allessandro) sopra
la Carestia del' Anno, 1619— Elogium in Bernardum Guadagni —
Proverbi Fiorentini — Scrutinio Astrologico del' Anno 1688, sopra
la Real Maesta di Sassonia — Regali fatti alia Santissima Vergine
del' Irnproneta nella sua Dimora in Firenze, 1711

in 1 vol. folio. S^ec. xvi. xyii. & xviii. oisr paper

An interesting collection, containing several curious tracts (some unpublished)
apparently in the handwritings of the various authors. The treatise of
A. Rinuccini is an important historical work which, according to Moreni,
is unpublished, as he quotes it only from a manuscript formerly in the
Guadagni Library. The proverbs, occupying 16 large pages, are very
curious, as is also the astrological Scrutinio. The magnitude of presents
to the " Vergine dell' Irnproneta " seems quite astonishing.

532 Jacobi de Forlivio in Libros Galeni de Arte Parva subtilissimse et ordi-

natissimse Quaestiones folio. %mg. xiv. (1372) on paper

This early manuscript has on the first page the following inscription : " Iste liber
est mens ipsi vocor Matthaius de Mathematicis de Forlivio Ano Domini 1372
Die 1 Junii." Fabricius is wrong in assigning the date of about 1430 to
this author, as another manuscript of the fourteenth century also of the
same work is in the Medicean Library. (See Bandini, Catal. Bibl. Medic.
vol. III. p. 47.)

118 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

533 Jacobi de Vitriaco Historia Jerosolimitana abbreviata. — Accedit

Hystoria facta per Hiagistrum Thadeum Civem Neapolitanum de
desolacione et conculcacione Civitatis Acconensis et totius Terrae
Sanctse, in Civitate Messanae in Annis Domini mccxci inditione
quinta de mense Decembri, in the original binding

folio. Sjsc. xv. (1448) on paper and partly on yellum

Written in a fine large hand with illuminated capitals, and having the following
colophon : Hie finem recepit Anno dni Millimo ccccxlviii fia Scda in die stl
Johannis ante poi-tam latinam." This work of Jacques de Vitry who died
in 1244 is remarkable as containing a passage on the magnet " valde
neeessarius navigantibus." We gather from Bongarsius that some times, as
here, the whole text was called Chronica abbreviata. Old manuscripts
relating to the history of the Crusades are exceedingly scarce. The present
one contains headings which are not in Bongarsius. The work of Jacobus
de Vitriaco is interesting not only for the information it affords relative to
the political and natural history of the East, but also because it contains
an important portion of English and French history during the thirteenth
century. But that which gives even more importance to this manuscript
is the Hystoria magistri Thadei, a most valuable unpublished work
of which we cannot find any mention either in Fabricius, Tiraboschi,
Toppi, Riccio, Mongitore, Narbone, or in the Bibliographie des Croisades
by Michaud, and which seems to be quite unknown. The fly-leaves
contain fragments of old manuscripts on vellum, in Hebrew and in Latin,
relating to grammar, theology, &c, &c.

534 Jacopone da Todi (Beato) Poesie

pigskin, loith clasps folio. Sjec. xiv. on yelltjm

A splendid manuscript of these sacred poems (Cantici Spirituali) written as if
in prose. Prefixed is an exquisite drawing, representing a full-length por-
trait of the author, as a monk, holding the cross in his right hand and his
breviary in the left, with monks escaping the flames of hell coming to kiss
the Saint's toe. The two next pages are occupied with representations of
Christ and S. Leonardus, drawn and coloured in the rude style of the
Block Books. Before the Table of Contents is a full-length Madonna
and Child, in colours, elegant in design but rudely executed. At the end
are other verses, including "La Profetia vulgarmente facta per Frate Tomas-
succio da Norcia miiilxiii (1363)," and "la Profetia dell Abate Johacchino."
Manuscripts containing these sacred Cantici, in which a Saint of the Roman
Church inveighed so much against the Pope, who had him imprisoned
for many years, are very scarce. Hsenel quotes none, and exclusive of
some fragments, Marsand found only two perfect copies in the whole of the
libraries of Paris, and those on paper, and considerably more modern than
the present one, which affords several proofs of having been written at the
very beginning of the fourteenth century, either during the life of the
author, or shortly after his death, which occurred in 1306. For instance,
there are at the end several Latin memoranda of the time, written (as
was the habit in those times in which vellum was dear and scarce,) upon
two leaves which had remained blank. These memoranda relate to the
years 1316 and 1317, the last of them stating :

" In nomine Domini anno Millesimo trecentissimo decimo septimo tempore
domini Iohannis Papa? XII." &c.

Another date occurs, in a more modern handwriting, on the reverse of
folio 115, where it is stated that this manuscript was lent in 1436 by Francis
Marcucci to a Friar, called also Franciscus. At the beginning there is
another note, stating that in 1433 :

" Dal mese de gennaro foro retrovate le ossa del beato Jacopone," &c.

These and other notes of a similar character, the likeness of the Saint
which, no doubt, was taken from the life, and the dialect of Todi, which is
manifest in the Laudi, show that this manuscript was written in the
native town of Iacopone, and that it was not altered by Tuscan and other

THE LIBEI MANTJSCEIPTS.

119

scribes, as was frequently the case. Indeed, in the subsequent editions,
alterations were made by the printers also. Another important proof
of the antiquity of this manuscript, is the fact that these Laudi, com-
posed in so bold a style before the Divina Commedia, are here written like
prose, without distinction of verses. The following instance, taken from
one of his most celebrated Laudi, in which Iacopone relates the hard-
ships he suffered in prison, and compared with the Venetian edition of 1617,
quoted by the Crusca, will show at once the manner in which the verses
are written in this manuscript, and the various readings it contains.

Manuscript (folio 52).
" De frate iacobo qu fuit I cacere ; ca. Lv.
Que farai fra iocouone
Ei uenuto alparagone
Fusti ad mote pellestrina.
Anno e mezzo in disciplina.
Ecco pigliasti malina. Do
ne ai mo la prescione. P
robedato e corte de Roma. Ta
no reducta soma, Ome
fama seccafuma. Talna
gio maledecone. So ar
uenuto probedato. Chel
capuccio me nioccato p"
petuo encarcerato. Enca
tenato co lione. Lapres
cione che me data. Una
casa sotterrata Aresiece
una priuata.

Edition, (p. 61).

" Che farai fra Iacopone ;
Ch'or se' giunto al paragone?
Fui al monte Pelestrina
Anno e mezo in disciplina:
Pigliai quivi la malina,
Onde n' haggio esta prigione
Prebendato in corte Roma
questa n'ho recata soma;
Ogni fama mia s' affuma,
Tal nio haggio, maledezione.
Or vedete il prebendato
Chel capuccio m' e mozato
In perpetuo carcerato
Catenato qual leone.
La prigione che m' e data,
Una casa sotterrata:
Vi riesce una pravata, etc."

Although the present description may appear too prolix, still so venerable
a manuscript (perhaps the oldest in existence) of Dante's most celebrated
predecessor in Italian strong and animated poetry, decorated with several
exquisite drawings (see especially that on the first page and at the top of the
reverse of the second leaf) made by undoubtedly a first-rate artist, seemed
to deserve a somewhat more lengthy notice than is ordinarily the case.
In doing so we followed the steps of the celebrated M. Villemain, who, in
his admirable Tableau de la litter ature au moyen age (vol. II, p. 3-6), has
given a full account of the hazardous life and works of this celebrated
monk. Respecting Fra Jacopone, see also Nos. 865 and 867, in the present
Catalogue. (See facsimile.)

535 Jam!, The Yustje wa Zulaikha.
"Wife, a Poem in Persian

The Loves of Joseph and Potiphar's
folio. Sjec. xviii. on paper

536

An exquisite manuscript of this beautiful Poem, written in the most elegant
NastaTlk characters, in double columns, surrounded by gold lines, and
having an illuminated title-page. It is adorned with 21 large paintings,
illustrative of the Adventures described, executed in the finest style
of Persian art, the colours being most brilliant and heightened with
gold. Jami, or, as D'Herbelot writes the name, Giami, was one of the
most celebrated of the Persian Poets and by his countrymen he is
considered to have surpassed in beauty of imagery all the poets of anti-
quity. His real name was 'Abd-al-Rahman-Bin- Ahmad, and he was sur-
named Jami from the place of his birth, Jam or Giam near Herat. His
Poem on the Loves of Joseph and Zulaikha is considered a master-
piece. He lived in the fifteenth century and dedicated one of his works
to the celebrated Mahomet II Sultan of the Turks.

Jennings (Johannis) Arithmetica practicalis et universalis in Usum
Juventutis Academicse, 1721 — Emesii Anatomia contracta in Aca-
demia Kiborthiensi (Anglice) habita a J. Jennings, 1721

8vo. SiEC. xviii. on paper

Unpublished. The author of this treatise is not mentioned by the biblio-
graphers of mathematics.

120 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

537 Jeremy Judicis de Montagnone civis Paduani Compendium Moralium
notabilium 4do. S.ec. xv. on yellum and paper, mixed

This valuable Compendium is a sort of universal Cyclopaedia, and contains
prefixed a list of the authors and works cited, amongst which will be found
not only the Sacred Writings and Fathers, but also most of the best
classical authors and schoolmen, as well as Proverbia Metrica and Proverbia
Vulgaria. The colophon at end is as follows : " Explicit Compendium
moralium notabilium factum per Bartholoineum de Vicecomitibus de Carma-
gnoliay Jeremias de Montagnone was one of the most celebrated jurists of the
thirteenth century, who died in 1300. This work contains an entire and very
curious book, De Bello et arte Bellandi. The index, or " Nomina auctorum
vel librornm ex quibus compilatum est hoc compendium secundum ordinem
temporum ipsorum," contains a great number of Latin classics (such as Quin-
tilianus and others, supposed to have been only discovered in the fifteenth cen •
tury) and even some more modern authors and works (like " Joh.Sarisberiensis;
Libellus qui dicitur facetus ; Libellus Astrolabii," etc.) which it seems extra-
ordinary should be already known at Padua during the thirteenth century.
Amongst the ancient authors quoted in this manuscript we find a Cladi-
cinus poeta (supposed by Jeremias to have been of the time of Cassiodo-
rus) of whom we can find no mention whatever either in Fabricius, Leyser,
Burmann, or elsewhere. This is a new instance of an ancient Latin author,
lost after the restoration of literature in Europe. According to Fabricius
(Bibl. Lat. Med. in Maximianus) who quotes the Compendium by Jeremias,
from a manuscript, this work was written about 1270 (see also Vedova,
vol. I, p. 615), and yet the author quotes in it a collection of proverbs in
Italian (proverbia vulgaria,) a work which now seems utterly lost. See
also No. 860 in the present Catalogue.

538 Jesuits. Martirologio dei Padri della Compagnia di Gesu

4<tO. SjEC. xvii. ON PAPER
In this valuable manuscript, the Martyrs are arranged according to the days of
the month on which their memory is celebrated. Amongst those com-
memorated will be found notices of H. Morse, R. Southwell, J. Ogilby,
E. Oldcorn, F. Page, H. Garnet, F. Cottam, T. Garnet, E. Arrowsmith,
E. Campion, T. Holland, &c. &c.

539 Joanna Austria de Oratione Tractattjs ex Sacra Scriptura, Sanctis

Patribus et prsecipue ex Fratre Ludovico Bethico Latine redditus et
collectus ad Philippum III. Hispaniarum Principem

4±to. S^ic. xvi. on paper
Probably in the autograph of the Royal Authoress, who seems, whilst shut up
in the Regal Nunnery of St. Clare at Naples, to have amused herself with
literature, and to have dedicated this work to her brother, because, as she
herself tells us in the dedication, " Sancti Didaci vitam scriptam Regum
maximo Patri tuo superioribus annis dicaverim.^ It is written in imitation
of printing, the authoress, however, frequently falling into the Italian cursive
hand.

5-10 Jobi Liber cum Commentario ex S. Gregorio Papa, S. Hieronymo,
aliisque desumpto folio. Smc. xi. on vellum

This early manuscript is a palimpsest, that is, finely written over erased vellum
on which traces are still visible of an earlier Codex, and is adorned with a
representation of Job naked, addressing his three friends, which, as well as
the initial V, are curious specimens of early art. Some attempt seems to
have been made in order to have the ancient uncial characters revived on
the last leaf. This manuscript was formerly in the celebrated Billy
Library, and has the book-plate of the Abbe* Lecuy. (See facsimile.)

541 Johannis (S.) Apocalypsis cum Commentario — Solomonis Regis
Cantica Canticorum cum Commentario 4do. SiEC. xi. on vellum

This early manuscript has this ancient inscription, " Liber Fratrum Prazdica-
torum Metensium." The text, as well as the glosses, are very finely written
At the end there are some extracts from St. Jerome, &c. {See facsimile.)

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 121

512 Joannis Chrtsostomi (S.) ITomilia de Exitu Adami e Paradiso,
Greece folio. S.ec. x, on vellum

A venerable manuscript, written in double columns, in a large ancient Greek
character, with red capitals. The form of the letters, as well as that of
the accents, compared with the facsimiles and rules given by Montfaucon
in his Paleographia Grceca (pp. 272-275), prove undoubtedly that this
manuscript, which is slightly defective at the end, belongs to the tenth
century. This is one of St. John Chrysostom's homilies, which it is very
difficult to find in ancient manuscripts. From the printed Catalogus Biblio-
thecce Megice Paris., we see that all the manuscripts of this work preserved
in that immense collection, are of the fifteenth century, one only excepted,
which is of the fourteenth. (See facsimile.)

543 Johannis Chrtsostomi (S.) Lituroia cum Notis Mustcis Gr^ice
" veau fauve" Svo. S.ec. xv. on paper

This is an exceedingly interesting manuscript, as no mention whatever could be
found of this musical liturgy of that celebrated father of the Greek Church.
This work is quite different from anything of a similar character published
(without the musical notes) under the name of S. John Chrysostom, and it
does not agree with any one of the liturgical Greek works mentioned by
Mr. Neale in his excellent General Introduction to the History of the Eastern
Church. It seems that the work was unknown even to M. Fetis and
M. Vincent, the last of whom published in the XVIth volume of the
Notices et Extraits, a very considerable work on Greek music. To prove
that Greek manuscripts with musical notes are of the greatest rarity, it
will suffice to quote the authority of Matt. Gerbertus, who, in his work
" De Cantu et Musica Sacra " (vol. I, p. 588), says, " Libros notis musicis
exaratos rarissime conspiciant vel etiam habeant Grmci." This manu-
script is finely written in red and black, with the Greek musical notes
throughout.

511< Joannis Chrtsostomi (S.) (Joh Os Aurev SvP Matheum) Homilise
in Matthseum XXV, cum Praefatione Aniani " Oronti Episcopo " —
Epistola Presbtteri Johannis
in the binding of the Tudor family folio. S^ec. xi. ON yellum

The loss of the Anianian version of the Homilies contained in this venerable
and apparently unique manuscript was much regretted, and Montfaucon in
the Prafatio to the Vllth volume of his edition of Chrysostomus,
says: " Non dubito igitur quin Anianus totum homiliarum in Mattheum
librum latine transtulerit Et fortassis si omnium Bibliothecarum manu-
scripti codices excuterentur posset hodie tota Aniani versio erui," etc.
The very curious Epistola Presbyteri Johannis, so celebrated during the
middle ages, is written at the end by another hand. On the covers
there are blind toolings, with the Tudor rose and the crown of England.
(See facsimile).
5i5 Johannes Chrtsostomus de Sacerdotio. Incipit Dialogus Johannis
et Basilii Episcoporum 4do. S^c. x-xi. on vellum

Formerly belonging to the Convent of St. Pantaleo at Cologne, with the usual
Anathema, " Si quis abstulerit anathema sit" written cotemporary with the
manuscript. Ancient manuscripts of this work are very scarce. The
" Catalogus Bibliothecse Regise Parisiensis," mentions five, but the whole
of them of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In our manuscript all
the numerical figures are written according to the ancient Roman system.
The text of this manuscript seems to have been read through and
thoroughly corrected at the time of the transcription by some learned
man. (See facsimile.)

54G Joannis Damasceni Dialectica et Expositio Fidei Orthodoxy
Greece, original binding 4<to. S^;c. xii-xiii. on yellum

This venerable and important manuscript formerly belonged to the Earl of Guil-
ford. Tn the first book there are numerous diagrams, and prefixed to the
second is a full-length portrait of the Saint, which is a very rare occurrecne

122 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

in ancient Greek manuscripts. The initials also are very singular in this
manuscript, an O for instance being the likeness of Jesus Christ. But
what is more interesting as a palaeographic fact is, that in the numerals the
Greek_ letters are mixed with some peculiar signs, as if the ancient Greek
numerical system was here amalgamated with what is commonly called the
Arabic system. (See facsimile.)

547 Johannis Presbyteri Damasceni Libri IV. de Fide Orthodoxa a Bur-

gundione Judice Cive Pisano de Grasco in Latinum Douiino III.
Eugenio beatse memorise papas translati, cum Commentario

4ito. S^:c. xiii. on yelltjm

This translation by Burgondione, who lived at Pisa in the twelfth century, has

never been printed. Mazzuchelli, who praises this Judge for the fidelity of

his versions from the Greek at a period when a knowledge of the Greek

language was so scarce, distinctly mentions this work of his as unpublished.

548 Johannis de Deo, Hispani, Libellus primalis. Tractatus naturalis,

bonus et utilis per anni circulum diebus dominicalibus praadicare
volenti — Simonis de Cremona super Epistolas per circulum anni
Dicta — Concord anto;—Textus tertii Libri Sententiarmn— De
Conceptione B. Virginis Marise folio. Sjec. xv. (1458) on paper
From the Carthusian Monastery at Erfurt. The Libellus primalis of J. de Deo,
and the Concordantioe of S. de Cremona are works not quoted by Fabricius,'
and seem to be both unknown. The vellum fly leaves of the volume con-
tain fragments of an ancient liturgy (of the eleventh century) with old
musical notes.

549 Johannis Sancti Pauli Breviarium medicine

4ito. S^;c. xiv. on vellum
Unfortunately slightly damaged, and wanting the first leaf. This medical wri-
ter is not mentioned by Fabricius or Tiraboschi ; and no work of such an
author is mentioned by Hsenel, Bandini, or in the great " Catalogus Biblio-
thecse Eegiae Parisiensis." At the end there is a curious Latin Poem on
the division of the Pound and Ounce, &c, followed by a description of
" Dies infelices totius anni," according to the medical views of the time.

550 Joannis Filii Serapionis Breviarium Medicum translatum a Magistro

Grerardo Cremonense in Toleto de Arabico in Latinum— Sinonima

(Expositiones Nominum Arabicorum) Magistri Gerardi Cremonensis

super Serapionem

French green morocco Uo. Sj3C. xii.-xiii. on yelltjm

Written by an English Scribe, and adorned with three small illustrative

paintings, showing the state of the art of illumination at this early period

in England. At the end there are some leaves on paper containing medical

prescriptions written during the fifteenth century.

551 Johannis Galensis, Fratris Ordinis Minorum, JNTatione Anglici

Communiloquium seu Margarita Doctorum — Henrici de Hassia

Sermo gloriosus de Assumptione — Eemedia contra Dolorem Den-

tium— De Materia Sermonum— Petri (de Alliaco) Cardinalis

Cameracensis, Devotus Tractatus de Corpore Christi — Mathei de

Cracovia Devota Oratio de Statu Ecclesise — Seneca de quatuor

Virtutibus Cardinalibus, cum Additionibus et indice

in the original oak binding in \ vol. folio, S^c. xv. on paper

A very interesting collection, formerly in the Carthusian Monastery at Erfurt.

Johannes Galensis was an eminent English divine, who became so celebrated

a doctor in the University of Paris, that according to Philippus Bergomensis

(Chronicon ad Annum, 1276), he had already in theXIIIth Century acquired

the surname of " Vit^ Arbor." He was tutor to the famous Duns Sco-

tus, one of the most eminent of the schoolmen of his age, and who, although

he died young, received from his contemporaries the reputation of being the

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 123

MOST subtle doctor, liis opinions being often quoted as those doctoris
subtilis, without any other denomination. Henry of Hesse, otherwise called
Henricus de Langenstein, was also a Doctor and Vice-Chancellor of Paris,
who subsequently became Professor of Theology at Vienna, where he died
in 1397. He wrote against the Wiclifites. Fabricius states that most of his
works remain inedited, but that some had been published and falsely attri-
buted to St. Bernard, Gerson, and other Fathers of the Church. Peter de
Alliaco, who died as Cardinal at Cambry, in 1425, was also one of the
most learned men of his time. Manuscripts of any of his works are very
uncommon. Cardinal Mattheus de Cracovia, who died as Bishop of Worms
in 1410, is well known by his treatise de Squalore Ciirice Romance, and for
his attempts to reform the clergy. This oration seems to have been un-
known to Fabricius. The treatise here attributed to Seneca is the well-
known spurious work supposed to have been composed about the year 560,
by the Spanish Archbishop Martinus Dumiensis. On the cover there is
an old index of the contents, in which this volume is styled Communeloquium
cum midtis aliis tractatibus.

552 Joannis Peckham, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, Tractatus de Oculo

morali et ejusdem tractatus de septem peccatis mortalibus

Ho. Syec. xiv. ON VELLUM

John of Peckham was a disciple of St. Bonaventura, and Archbishop of

Canterbury from 1278 to 1293. He was not only an excellent theologian,

but also celebrated as a mathematician, having written treatises on the

Sphere and on Perspective.

553 Johannis Peckham, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, Tractatus moralis

de oculo 8vo. Sjec. xv. on yellum

554 Josephi (Flavii, Hebreorum Historiograplii) Judaic^ Antiquitatis

Libri xx. Belli yero Judaici cum Romanis Libri vii.

imperial folio. Svec. x-xi. on yellum
This magnificent manuscript, measuring 20 inches by 14, is written in double
columns, and is adorned with numerous illuminated capitals, some filling
nearly the entire page, and heightened with gold. The translation is that
described in the printed editions as "per Venerabilem Presbyterum Ruffi-
num Aquileiensem Virum Doctissimum," but the name of the translator is
no where mentioned throughout this manuscript. The large capitals, in
the finest style of what is commonly called the Byzantine art, are of
peculiar interest, as some of them are not gilt, but prepared only, in
different degrees, thus showing the process employed by the artists of that
period. The headings (in different colours) are written in uncial or capital
rustic letters, and the whole of the numerous numerical figures are accord-
ing to the old Roman system. The volume begins with an Index followed
by the heading "In hoc codice continentur," etc. etc. {See facsimile) .

555 Josephus. Collatio duorum Codicum MSS. Flavii Josephi in Biblio-

theca Vindobonensi cum Editione Coloniensi Anno 1691 instituta a
Laur. Theod. Gronovio ipsiusque Manu conscripta, A. 1695 —
Collatio Cod. MS. Vaticani cum Editione Josephi Genevensi
A. 1611, cura P. Buhei — Collatio Josephi de Bello Judaico cum
Cod. MS. — Collatio Josephi cum Cod. MS. Vossiano Manu Ah.
Gronovii scripta. — Gronovii (Jacobi) JNotae qusedam autograplice
in Josephum 4<to. Sjec xvii. on paper

These important collations, consisting of more than 200 pages, are all in the
autograph of the Gronovii and P. Rulseus, and would be most valuable to
a scholar about to re-edit Josephus.

556 Jus Canonicum small folio. SiEC. xii. et xiii. on vellum

A collection of Canons and Epistles of various Roman Pontiffs with com
mentaries on various points of Canon Law, commencing with the Anathema
on those eating meat on fast-days, in different hand- writings. The numerical
figures are all according to the ancient Roman system. (See facsimile.)

124 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

557 Jus Ecclesiasticum. Tractatus de Censuris, Excommnnicatione et

de Interdicto 4>to. S^ec. xvi. (1600) on paper

A very learned Treatise, but apparently wanting the last leaf of the treatise on
Interdicts. The cover is formed of an original Bull of Pope Clement VIII.
dated 1592.

558 Justini Epitoma ex Historiis Trogi Pompeii totius Orbis

vellum folio. Sjec. xv. on veelum

A very elegant manuscript by an Italian Scribe, corrected throughout by the
celebrated Giannozzo Manetti, with his autograph signature on the fly-leaf
and his marginal references on almost every page. Manetti was one of the
most learned men of his time, and was a great collector of manuscripts,
giving vast sums for copying such as he could not otherwise obtain. His
grand search was for such as were historical, and his object seems to have
been to found a public library at the Monastery of S. Spirito at Florence,
which death (in 1459) prevented his carrying into execution. The present
manuscript exhibits a very pure text, which would greatly assist the future
editor. At the very beginning of the manuscript instead of " Semiramis
covering her brachia ac crura vclamentis " we have virilis vestis, &c. Not
only for having belonged to so celebrated a scholar as Manetti, who amongst
other works wrote the Lives of Dante and Petrarch, and was secretary to
Pope Nicolas V, but also for its intrinsic literary value, this manuscript
deserves peculiar attention.

559 Jestini Abbreviatoris Trogi Pompei Epitome Historiarum

in the original calf binding 4<to. Smc. xv. ON yeleem

Written by an Italian Scribe on very pure vellum, having ornamental capitals
at the commencement of each book, the first illuminated in gold and
colours.

This Manuscript offers a great number of curious various readings to a modern
editor. As a sample, we select a sentence from the first chapter of the
first book, placing the text of Valpy's edition in the parallel column.

Manuscript. Edition.

" Fuere quiclem temporibus antiquiores " Fuere quidem temporibus antiquiores

Vexoris aegiptiis Scithiae Erestaneus SesostrisAegyptietScythiajrexTanaus:

quorum alter in pontum, alter usque quorum alter iu Pontum, alter usque

aegyptum excessit : sed longinqua Aegyptum, excessit. Sed longinqua, uon

non finitima gerebaut bella contentique finitima bella gerebant : nee imperium

victoria : non imperium sibi, sed populis sibi, sed populis suis gloriam,qua?rebant ;

suis gloriam quEerebant." contentique victoria imperio abstine-

bant."

5G0 Justini Historia folio. Sjec. xv. on paper

Beautifully written by an Italian Scribe, with illuminated capitals, but unfor-
tunately stained. This excellent manuscript deserves a careful collation,
as it would furnish several valuable various readings.

561 Justini Explicatio ab Anonymo, vellum Mo. S^c. xvii. on paper

The Dictata of a learned Dutch Professor, probably Grsevius, although attri-
buted by a former owner to F. Oudendorp. They have the signature of
the Pupil who wrote this manuscript, viz.: " E. V. Belle, 1680." See the
long manuscript note in the autograph of the late venerable Dr. Routh,
President of Magdalen College.

5G2 Justiniani Imperatoris Dioestem noyem see Pandectarem
Libri XXXIX — L. cum Glossis folio. SiEC. xi.-xii. on veeeem

The text of this valuable manuscript " ex Libris Monasterii Wiblinsensis" was
written apparently in the latter part of eleventh century, and the glosses
appear to have been added in the beginning of the fourteenth. The first
eight leaves are supplied in a more recent hand. In Roman literature,
nothing is more important than the legal collections made by the order of
Justinian; and we may add, that nothing is more rare than to find very

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 125

ancient manuscripts of these grand works. The great Catalogue of the
" Bibliotheca Regia Paris." contains a large number of manuscripts of the
Digest, but exclusive of a volume containing the " Digestum vetus " (No.
4450), which is of the twelfth century, the whole of them are of the four-
teenth and subsequent centuries. The numerical figures in this venerable
manuscript are all written according to the old Roman style, but those at
the top of the leaves indicating the books of the pandectce, and upon which
were more recently written the correlative numbers of the " Digestum
novum," are of a very singular form and deserve attention. (See facsimile.)

563 Justiniani Imperatoris Institutiones Civiles

old vellum gilt 8vo. Sjec. xvii. on paper

56 Jj Juvenalis et Peesii Satyrse cum Commentario interlineari ad Juve-
nalem. Accedit Expositio, half vellum Mo. Sjsc. xv. on paper

Written probably by an Italian scholar, as before the Expositio are two letters,
one in Italian, the other in Latin. The date of the manuscript is given at
the end of Juvenal, "Explicit Juvenalis Deo Gratias Ame, M.CCCC.LXXV.
Die Aprilis iii." The commentary seems to be unpublished.

565 Juyenalis Satyrse, et Vitse Auctoris tres. "Explicit liber juvenalis
quern ego petrus simon costantinum Jacobi Vanderutii de Rto*
scrypsy, 1472." — Kalendaeium per Menses singulos quo notantur
versu hexametro prsecipuse Ecclesise Eestivitates — Rime amoeose —
Pe^cepta Medicinalia Versu Hexametro
half vellum Mo. S.ec. xv. on paper

A valuable manuscript, which deserves collation on account of its various
readings. Prefixed to the fourth and other Satires, are verses not in the
printed copies.

5QG Iyonis (S. " Carnotensis Episcopi ") Exceptiones Ecclesiasticaritm
Regulaeum Mo. S^ec. xii. on yellum

On the first leaf is written : " Iste Liber est de ecclesia beate marie Bellnocensis
anno dfii mcccclxxii." This is the important work called Pamiormia,
divided into eight parts, and containing a great number of ancient canons
and Decreta Pontificum, which would have been lost, had not this
celebrated pupil of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, collected them.
This volume was no doubt, written during the twelfth century, and
about the life-time of the author, who died in 1115. The whole of the
numerical figures are written in this manuscript, according to the ancient
Roman system. By comparing this manuscript of Ivo with Mr. Migne's
edition (Patrologia, torn. CLXI. ; Paris, 1855, in8vo.), we find not only a
great number of interesting various readings, (Some, lib. Ill, § 3, relating to
the Incarnation) and large transpositions (see, for instance, liber VIII,
§§ exxii et exxiv), but also numerous ancient authors quoted in the manu-
script which are not named in the edition, and after the prevfatio (printed
in the edition, at the beginning of the Decretum), the manuscript exhihits
a Breviatio, or Capitulatio, filling almost three pages, which is not in the
edition.

507 KaeT, " Sharh-al-Mu'arribat." An Arabic Grammar, copied Anno Hegirae
1259 (a.d. 1842) Mo. S^c. xix. on paper

5G8 Kalendaeium (cum Almanach 1438-1529) 1437 — Tractatus de Motu
Solis et Lunse aliarumque Planetarum cum Commentario, 1462 —
Computus Nicolai de Eriberg, 1440— Johannes de Saceobosco de
Arte numerandi ; Tractatus cum Commentario, 1440 — Algoeismus
prosaicus Novus re integris per me Nicolaum Currifich (?) Ma-
gunciae xvi Julii, 1452 — Teactatus minuciarum vulgarium — ■
Computus (Germanice) Magistri Ewaldi Erffe (Erfordise ?) — De
Minuciis qusedam — Modus Computationis minuciarum vulga-

126 THE LIBEI MANUSCBIPTS.

rium et physicarum, 1466 — De Badicum extractione — Enigmata,
— De minuciis physicis et vulgaribus, 1440 — Jo. Langbeyni Pro-
funditas — Compositio Chelendri, Quadrantis, Horologiorum, &c. —
De G-eometria varia — Practica Mensurationis per virgam, &c. —
De Cambiis, &c. in 1 vol. 4<to. S^ec, xv. on paper

An important manuscript, consisting of about 600 pages and containing such
a mass of unpublished and even unknown mathematical matter, that it
would require a volume to describe it. The Kalendarium is written in
Latin, but above each month is a German distich, that for January being —

" Hormunth beyn ich genannt
Grosse trincke seyn mir wol bekannt."

Preceding this Kalendarium, are Latin verses illustrative of the Signs of the
Zodiac, and mnemonic lines for remembering the Saints of each month.
After the Almanac follow verses respecting the time for phlebotomy, &c.
The Kalendarium itself commences, " Licet omnes homines," and is illustrated
with diagrams having Arabic numerals. The Tractatus de Motu Solis, &c.
commences, " Cognitio veritatis," and is preceded by a Volvelle, on the centre of
which an angel is depicted. It has various diagrams with Arabic numerals.
At the end are two other Volvelles. Several of the other pieces are by Nico-
laus de Friberg, who near the end of this important manuscript has copied
a deed from the Bishop of Meissen relating to himself. He certainly
was a first-rate mathematician for the time in which he lived, and besides his
own writings has here collected several mathematical tracts (some metrical,)
chiefly on arithmetic, on ordinary and sexagesimal fractions (minucise vul-
gares et physicae), &c. which it would be very difficult to find elsewhere.
In several pages this manuscript is full of additional scientific notes (with
drawings, volvelles, astronomical and meteorological tables, &c.) in Latin,
with Hebrew letters, and in German, with abridgements, even in the names ;
and is therefore very difficult to read. The Ars Numerandt, by Sacrobosco,
has several readings varying from Mr. Halliwell's edition (Rara Mathe-
matica, p. 1), and ends with the Progressio ("novenarius summa totius pro-
gressionis. Et sic est finis hujus opens.") The Commentary, which is of
considerable length, does not agree with any one of those quoted by Mr.
Halliwell. Several leaves contain tables for dice. On leaf 224 there is a
full length human figure. The Enigmata are very singular and contain
algebraical questions, the solution of which requires more than ordinary
skilfulness, and show that about the middle of the fifteenth century ele-
mentary algebra must have been very well understood in Germany.

569 Kalendarium pro Anno 1453, a Magistro Johanne Gemunden in

Wien, vellum 4to. S^c. xv. on tellum

A very fine manuscript, consisting of 19 leaves, written in red and colours, with
many astronomical tables and curious diagrams. Lalande quotes (it seems
erroneously) this author at the year 1400, as we find in Falkenstein
(Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst, p. 56,) the mention of another Almanac
(a Block-Book), by the same, Ioh. de Gamundia, or Gamnnden, for the year
1468. This Almanack seems quite unknown. The Saints mentioned in
the Calendar render it probable that this manuscript was executed for, or
copied in England, the words in Wien, signifying probably that the work
was compiled in that city or that the Author resided there.

570 Kalendarium. " Durrat-al-Mudhiyat-fi-al-'Amal-al-Shamsiyah," by

Shaikh Muhammad Akhsasi 4tto. Smc. xvi. on paper

An interesting work in Arabic, containing much astronomical matter connected
with the Calendar, and several astronomical tables from the beginning of
the Hegira, giving the length of the days in the various countries, the rising
of the stars, &c. &c. Some of the numerical figures are expressed by
Arabic letters, and some by the usual Arabic figures. Respecting Kalen-
daria, see also Nos. 39-41, 793, etc., in the present Catalogue.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS, 127

571 Kamal-al-Dik Hussain, the " Tiryak-i-Fariik," dedicated to Shah

Nur-al-Dm Ni'mat Allah al-Baki-al-Hussaini : a Treatise on the
Qualities, Uses, &c. of numerous Mineral and Vegetable Medicines,
in Persian, red morocco 12mo. Sjec. xvi. OK paper

An elegant manuscript, written in the Nasta'lik character, within borders of
gold, with an illuminated title-page. It has never been printed.

572 Kemka (A. L.) Geometrie, mit Eiguren und Tabellen

4fo. 1797, ok paper

573 Kepleri (Joaknis) Opuscula Mathematica varia autographa

folio. S.ec. xvii. ok paper

The autograph Cursus Mathematicus of this distinguished Mathema-
tician, AND THEREFORE A MOST INTERESTING RELIC, WHICH FOR ITS
IMPORTANCE DESERVES MORE THAN AN ORDINARY DESCRIPTION. The

first page commences with "Mathematica est Scientia quantitatis." The
second leaf contains Pythagorei Xrnxa koI p?n*a. Next follow Treatises on
Arithmetic and Geometry with diagrams, the latter described " sw 0eo> in-
cepta 19 Mail 1617. Synopsis Rudimentorum Geometrice traddita discipulis
privatis ibidem." These Treatises are complete and unpublished.
Extracts from various works and solutions of various problems in every
department of pure and mixed mathematics fill up the volume, which also
contains a German Treatise on Guaging, with necessary instructions for
manufacturing guaging rods. As is generally the case in the autograph
manuscripts of Kepler, this volume is full of quotations of every description
(Greek, Latin, German, and Italian) in prose and in verse, showing that
the illustrious author continually added new memoranda and extracts to
this work in order to be able to teach his pupils every new dis-
covery made in mathematical science. One of these quotations relates
to "Albert Girard tables des Sinus avec l'invention des reciproques
incogneues jusqu' a present: a la Haye chez Jacob Elzevir 1628." In another
place there is a diagram with this explanation : " Inventio mea, ducendi
lineam ubi videri nequeunt simul, diversa ab ilia quam proponet Stevinus
in sua geometria." There are also in this manuscript enquiries about
Solids, to which subject it is well known that Kepler gave atten-
tion. Although the sufferings of this glorious martyr of science are
too well known, we do not recollect to have seen mentioned any where that
from necessity to which he was reduced he gave for many years, as appears
from this manuscript, private lessons in order to prevent, or at least to
delay starvation. This manuscript, consisting of 80 pages, with finely
executed diagrams and small drawings, is one of the most interesting monu-
ments of the German mathematical science during the XVIIth century.
{See facsimile).

571 Khakdamir (Ghiyas-al-Dm Muhammad bin Hammam-al-Din) "'Hablb-
al-Siyar," or " Friend of Biographies," in Persian

3 vols, in 2. Mo. and folio. Sj3c. xvii. OK paper

Amongst the works written by this celebrated son of Mirkhand (see also No. 46,
in the present Catalogue) this is the most important. It contains the
history of the world from the creation to Anno Hegirae 930 (a.d.1523). Copies
of different portions of this work are not of uncommon occurrence, but it is
most difficult to find the three volumes together as they are in this manuscript
(the second being here bound with the third), which contains the whole
work. Two leaves only seem wanting (as far as it has been possible to
ascertain), one at the beginning of the work and one at the end. This
valuable manuscript is very old and fine, as the second volume (the
4to.) was copied anno Hegirae 1011 (a.d. 1601). Besides the work of
Khandamir, the second volume contains at the beginning another work on
geography without the author's name, in which many Arabic and Persian
works on the subject are quoted, such for instance as the 'Ajaib-al-Buldan,
etc. etc. It is needless to expatiate upon the importance of this large

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historical work, of which only some chapters have been published, the
more especially as it has been the subject of the labours of the most learned
Orientalists, such as MM. Quatremere, Keinaud, Defremery, Jourdain,
Dorn, Sir H. Elliot, Mr. Morley, and others.

575 Khulasat-al-Eunun, and Zubdat-al-Kanun, "Extract of Sciences

and Cream of Eules," Treatises on numerous Historical, Geographi-
cal, Astronomical, and other subjects
in red sheep folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

This valuable work is taken from a multitude of ancient authors. It is legibly
written, but slightly imperfect. It would require several pages to give a
complete description of it.

576 Khusru Amir, Dihlawi The " Kiran-al-Sa'dain," or " Conjunction

of two fortunate Planets," in Persian folio. $mq. xix. on paper

Eulogistic poems on the reigning princes and architects of Delhi, songs, and
miscellaneous poems. The tirst page of this manuscript is wanting, but
otherwise the work is complete. It was copied by a native of Delhi anno
Hegirse 1245 (a.d. 1829). Amir Khusru, the Prince of Sufi poets,
or King (as his poetical title of Khusru implies) was of Tatar origin, from
Kesh. He died at an advanced age, Anno Hegirse 725 (a.d. 1324), at
Delhi, where his tomb still exists.

577 Khusru Amir, Dihlawi. " Hasht-i-Bihisht," a Persian Poem

sheep folio. S.ec. xix. on paper

This work describes the banquets and enjoyments of KingBahram Ghur in his
eight paradises, with his exploits, hunting excursions, &c. and is dedicated
to 'Ala-al-Dm, who reigned in the middle of the thirteenth century. The
present manuscript was finely written Anno Hegirss 1240 (a.d. 1824)
by Khuman Singh, the same who copied the Sikandar Namali, described
in the following number.

577* Khusru Amir, Dihlawi, the " Sikandar Namah-i-Bahri," An Account,
in Persian Verse, of the Sea Voyages, Battles, Exploits, and Ban-
quets of Alexander the Great, copied a.d. 1824
sheep folio. 8mc. xix. on paper

An unpublished poem, scarce and valuable; wellwritten intheNasta'lik character.
Amir Khusru, of Delhi, who lived about six centuries ago, is reckoned one
of the finest of Persian Poets. This work must not be confounded with the
celebrated work of Nizami, which gives an account of the Exploits and
Wars of Alexander on land.

578 Kings ale (Gerald De Courcy, Lord) Introduction to Arithmetick and

Algebra 4<to. 1705, on paper

An Autograph manuscript, with " Gerald de Courcy his Arithmetick Book, the 8th
of October, 1705," written on the first leaf. It subsequently belonged to
Horace Walpole, whose book-plate is on the cover. We did not find
this name in the Index placed at the end of the work of Prof. De Morgan,
on Arithmetical Books.

579 Kirata Kavta, in Sanscrit oblong folio. S^ic. xviii. on paper

A scarce manuscript, well-written by an Oriental Scribe, upon Oriental paper,
and ruled with red lines.

580 Kircher (Padre Athanasio) Lettere XVII Italiane scritte ad Ales-

sandro Segni ed una di Elio Loreti al suddetto

Mo. 1677 & 1678, on paper

Eighteen valuable letters, entirely autograph, and very important for the gene-
alogy of the Medici Family. Kircher was one of the most learned Jesuits
that the Society has produced, and every subject he treats upon deserves

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attention. The Letter of Loreti is to inform Segni that Kircher, on account
of his age, is unable to give to the " Genealogia Medicea," the exactness
hitherto bestowed, and that therefore the eminent father had ordered him
to continue the work.

581 Kissas-al-Anbia, or Memoirs of the Prophets from Adam to Fatima

(daughter of the Prophet Mohammed) kto. SiEC. xv. on paper

Amongst other Biographies this work contains the Life of Mohammed, which
is very interesting. The author says that he compiled it from the Koran,
the 'Commentators, and several other works which he mentions; one of the
authors having derived his information from the famous conversation be-
tween Mohammed and the Angel Gabriel.

582 Kttab-al-Mustatrif, a Book of Novelties, in Arabic

Oriental binding folio. SvEC. xvi. on paper

This miscellaneous work in prose and verse, divided into 84 chapters, contains a
great variety of subjects, such as religion, moral philosophy, etc. etc.,
and describes the wonders of the earth, mountains, etc. etc. The anonymous
author says, that he has compiled it from the Koran, the traditions, the
history of Hermits, the work of Zamakhsharl, etc. etc.

583 Klaproth (Julius) Tibetanisches Worter-Verzeichniss. Vocabularium

Tartaricum. Tatarische Worter und Phrases, &c.

8V0. SiEC. Xix. ON PAPER

In the autograph of this eminent Philologist. Some pages are in the auto-
graph of Bayer the celebrated Orientalist.

584 Klaproth (J.) Mongolisch-Teutsches Worterbuch

half morocco 4<to. SiEC. xviii.

Full of interesting information, relating to Thibet, China, etc., collected by the
celebrated Chinese scholar, J. Klaproth.

585 Knug (Magistri Adolfi) Tractatus de Horologiis

4ito. Sjec. xv. (1481) ON PAPER

An Autograph Manuscript with Diagrams. On the first page is the author's signa •
ture, " Liber magistri Adolfi Knug de Mergenth, 1481." At the end is u Et
sic est finis, 1481, magistri adolfy knug" This author is not mentioned by
Lalande.

586 Koran, in Arabic folio. Sjec. ix-x. on paper

Beautifully written in the ancient Cufic character, on stout old brownish Bombyx
paper. The characters used, and the paper, show the antiquity of the
manuscript, which several Mohammedan Scholars and European Orientalists
who have seen it, agree in considering about one thousand years old.
Manuscripts in Cufic are of the rarest occurrence, and this splendid speci-
men, wanting however five or six leaves at the commencement, was
procured in Meshid 'Ali, a sacred Mohammedan town in Kirbaly near
Hillah, on the side of the ancient Babylon. The margins contain curious
old ornaments painted yellow, intended to mark the Rakus or full stops in
the various chapters of the work. It would be most difficult to find any
Arabic manuscript older than the present. (Seefac simile.)

587 Koran, in Arabic, with a marginal Persian translation

small folio. Stec. xviii. on paper
In Oriental binding of the richest style of embellishment. The first two and last
two pages are superbly emblazoned, and the whole volume consists of 20G
leaves, written in the most beautiful style, on thickly glazed paper, the
Arabic on a gilt ground, and the Persian between rays of gold uniting
the inner and outer margins which consist of alternate gilt and blue
coloured lines. For the caligraphy as well as for the exquisite binding,
this is one of the most elegant volumes ever brought to Europe
from the celebrated Ornamental School of Kashmir. (See also
Nos. 157 and 476 in the present Catalogue.) A Persian version of the
Koran is of exceedingly rare occurrence.

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130 THE LIBEI MANITSCKIPTS.

5S8 Koran, in Arabic Svo. S^c. xvi. on paper

A very ancient and valuable manuscript. It is a correct copy, and written in
the Naskh character.

589 Lactantius de Ira Divina et de Opificio Divino. Ejusdem Epitomen

folio. SJEC. XV. ON VELLUM

Beautifully written by an Italian Scribe, with three elegant illuminated capitals.

590 Laggetta (Giovan Michele) Istoria della Presa d'Otranto nell' Anno

1480 dai Turchi e sua Bicuperazione folio. S^ec. xvii. on paper

We gather both from Giustiniani and Soria that the present interesting work was
both unpublished and unknown at the moment they wrote their works on
the historical bibliography of the kingdom of Naples. Riccio (Scrittori,
p. 169) mentions this work, but it seems he had never seen it. The author
says that he has obtained every information from his own father, who was
present at the siege ; and therefore the work could not have been written
later than the middle of the sixteenth century.

591 Lambsrinck, noble Philosophe Alemand, les Emblemes, ancien Traite

sur la Pierre Philosophale, traduit en Latin par Nicolas Bernaud
Medecin du Dauphine, et du Latin en Francois

4ito. Sjec. xvii. on paper

592 Lanfredinus. Epicedia in Mortem Ursini Lanfredini

old French red morocco Svo. Sjec. xvi. on vellum

An extraordinary manuscript, beautifully written in letters of gold on block
vellum. The work is a collection of Elegies by Vasinus Gamberia, Sul-
pitius, B. Capella, A. C. Pomponianus, F. A. Sabinus, A. Politianus, and
other Latin Poets. A portion in each of four leaves is wanting.

593 Lanzoni (Dottor Giuseppe, Medico Ferrarese) Opuscoli diversi raccolti

da Girolaino Baruffaldi

folio. SjBC. xvii. et xviii. (1697-1716) on paper

An autograph manuscript, evidently prepared for publication, and containing
works that were edited as well as those never published, including his curious
Treatise, " del Formaggio." Amongst the dissertations that are most
worthy of perusal are these : " De Giuochi puerili antichi, dei Vasi anti-
chi, se sia possibile far Oro per Alchimia, dell' Origine della Pittura, &c. &C.1'
Lanzoni is an excellent authority on subjects of Antiquity and Art.
Concerning this learned man, see Tirabos.chi and Lombardi.

594 Lavater (Johann Kaspar) Drey Predigten, 18 April, 25 April und

2 May 1790 Svo. 1790, on paper

Autograph Sermons of the celebrated writer on Physiognomy, given by him
" An Carolina Sturmfeder den 3 vim 1790." The first two Sermons are
on John I. 51, 52, and treat of the Relation of Angels with regard to the Son
of Man Jesus Christ and with regard to Man. The third, which is on
Revelations xiv. 13, concerning the Happiness of departed Christians,
was preached before the Princess von Mompelgard on the Death of
the Archduchess her daughter.

595 Lectionarium ad Usitm Ecclesije 4<to. S.ec. ix. on yellum

This ancient manuscript, written in a very fine small Carlovingian character,
points out what part of the Gospels is to be read on every day throughout
the year, and is most important for the names of the Saints to be
commemorated. The handwriting, in some leaves, is a little obliterated.
(See facsimile) .

596 Lectionarium cum Notis Musicis

red velvet square 4<to. Sjec. ix. on vellum

In this truly venerable manuscript, the musical notes are very distinctly marked
m the old style, as in use before Guido dArezzo's discovery, namely by

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those signs which, in French, are commonly called neumes. This manuscript
is written in fine Carlo vingian characters (large and small), the rubrics
being written in capital red rustic Roman letters. This volume is equally-
important for the history of music, as for that of the liturgy. (See
facsimile.)

597 Lectionarium cum Notis Musicis

in the original oak binding 4rf,o. Sjsc. x-xi. on vellum

A very valuable manuscript for the early history of the Liturgy, written on
very stout vellum, with a large capital finely illuminated in the style of the
time. The musical notes are very nicely written in neumes. (See fac-
simile. )

598 Legend a de Sancto Johanni Battista

in old calf binding 4<to. 8&c. xvi. ON paper

In a large bold hand. This work, written in old Italian, is quoted by the
Academy della Crusca. It olfers important various readings from the
edition (Vite de1 Santi Padri, vol. Ill, p. 359).

599 Leghorn. Attaque de Livourne par les Anglais en 1813, avec le Rap-

port du Commandant folio. Smc. xix. on paper

600 Leonardi (Aretini) et Poggii Epistolse 4>to. Sjec. xv. on paper

A good manuscript, and of the time of those celebrated Italian literary men.
The last letter (consisting of 7 pages) contained in this volume is addressed
to the Cardinal of England, and is very interesting.

601 Leone X. Bilanci e Conti ed altre Partite attenenti a Leone X. ed all'

Arcivescovo di Firenze a tempo di Giulio de Medici, 1517-18

folio. Sjec. xvi. on paper
A valuable Collection of original documents of the highest importance to the
historian, with official signatures. Among the payments are one of 2000
"ducati d'oro" on account of 4000 to Cardinal Campeggio for eight months oi
his legation to England ; another of 256 ducats to Frate Nicolo de la
Magna for expenses to England ; another to the poet Giovanni Eucellai ot
300 ducats, his yearly salary ; several payments to the Strozzi, Fuggers, &c.
Amongst the liabilities is the sum of 3000 ducati payable by the Pope to An-
drea Petrini should his Holiness fail to give him the first vacant Secretaryship.
One of the most important entries occurs in March 1518, recorded thus :
" Pagati a Raffael d'Urbino per l'opere della Loggia Ducati 32,"
showing that only 32 ducats were paid to the immortal Raffaelle for
adorning the Loggia of the Vatican by the magnificent Pope, whilst in the
identical record, 100 ducats, are charged as given u per dar la mancia ai
Cantori per la festa della incoronatione," and 100 ducats to the courier who
brought the news of the birth of the King of France's son. Although
there is nothing to show that this sum was only a small payment on account,
yet, for the honour of Leo X, we would fain believe it must have been so. Two
Boccali d'Argento, formerly belonging to Cardinal Adriano, appear to
have cost the Pope D. 217. 6^, on buying them from Bernardo da Verra-
zano, and a robe D. 57. 6^. The receipts show whence the Papal revenues
were derived, and what prices were given for vacant places, his own
physician Ferrando de Arragona purchasing the " Ufitio d1 Abbreviatoria de*
Minori " for 2250 ducats, and Baldassare da Pescia, a " Segretariato " for
6000 ducats. These highly interesting original papers, of which we give
here only a short abstract, were unknown to all the biographers of Leo X,
and would afford precious information to any writer who would undertake
to enter more deeply into the private life of that celebrated Pontiff.

602 Leopold I. (Emperor) Six Autograph Letters addressed to Field-

Marshal Alexander Duke of Bournouille, Count of Hennin, &c.

folio. 1674, ON PAPER
Besides the six letters of the Emperor, which are entirely autograph, there is
also a letter from his wife, the Empress, entirely in her handwriting, recom-
mending Georg Bonaventur Freyherr von Welsperg for the first vacant

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132 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

Company. These are endorsed by the Field Marshal himself, who
has added several autograph extracts and copies of four other documents.
The Emperor's letters are on military affairs, and commence, " Lieber
Ducca," or " Lieber Fcldmarschall," (Dear Duke or Dear Marshall.) In
one of them the Emperor calls his attention to the enclosed letter from
J. F. Hottinger, Ambassador from the Elector of Mayence, which letter,
the original, will be found inserted m its place.

603 Leeici (Bernardino de "Decano Generale delle Corti di Koma") Serie

Cronologica della Eccellentiss. Casa Rospigliosi Pallavicini ; dei Fatti
rimarchevoli accaduti in Eoma ed in alcune Corti estere, col Ceri-
moniale che ivi si pratica nelle Corti degli Eccellentiss. Principi

folio. S^ec. xviii. (1766-79) on paper

This interesting manuscript commences with the Election of Pope Clement IX.
(Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi) and concludes with that of Polio Renier, as
Doge of Venice, on 21 January, 1779. The arms of the family are em-
blazoned on the first leaf. It contains also curious information relating to
the suppression of the Jesuits, and was unknown to the author of the
" Bibliografia Storica degli Stati pontifici."

604 Lettere diverse Mo. Sjec. xvi. on paper

Although this very curious volume commences with a " Letter a dove s'essorta a
seguire Amove" and is succeeded by a " Lettera dove si trattano le cagioni per
le quali Vliuomo sHnnamora" yet immediately after these follow various epistles
of historical interest, including letters from the Grand Duke of Tuscany to
the Duke of Savoy, 11 Dec. 1569, Cardinal Gonzaga, Cardinal Aldobrandini,
Cardinal Allen, Cardinal Morosini, &c. Several of these interesting
letters relate to the Reformation and the affairs of the Heretics during the
sixteenth century.

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FIFTH DAY'S SALE.

LOT

005 Lettioni morali e scritturali sopra Tobia, con altri Sermoni

4it0. SjUC. Xvi. ON PAPER

This is an autograph manuscript, with many alterations by the author himself,
whose name was inserted on the first leaf, but has evidently been erased.

006 Lettres Pateisttes. A collection of Sixty-nine Official Documents

with Signatures, on vellum in a portfolio

Original documents on vellum, written during the reigns of Louis XIII,
Louis XIV, and Louis XV. One of these (four large folio pages) is
printed upon vellum, and very likely is the only copy known, as it is not
quoted by Van Praet.

607 Liber de Tmagine Mundi, a.d. 1442 — Tractatus de Arithmetica —
Tractatus de Quadratura Circuli — Poesie Latine ed Italiane di
G-abuzio di Montealbodio e di Cristofero Fundo dedicate a Paolo
Guarini da Porli — Alberti (Leonbatista) Hecatomfila osia Arte
ingegnosa d'Amore e Deifira — Tempo (Antonio de) Regulse de Com-
ponendis Sonettis sive Ilhithmis vulgaribus (Italice) — Experi-
mentum Cinivilis (a Treatise on Magic, with curious Figures of
Charms, &c.) 4ito. Sjec. xv. ojst paper

An interesting collection written by different hands. The " Liber de Ymagine
Mundi" is a cosmographical and geographical work, quite different from
the treatise with the same title, written by Honorius Augustodunensis, and
printed in the fifteenth century at Nuremberg, by Ant. Koburger. At the
end the Scribe, after the date 1442, has written " Explicit Liber de Yma-
gine Mundi deo gratias, nee secundum quem reperi." But as the last
words of the work are matre herculis, the librarian of the Costabili Library
of Ferrara, from which this manuscript was derived, read it MattJdm Her-
culis, and in the index at the beginning wrote "Hercuiis Matthise Liber de
Imagine Mundi (!!!) " although, as we have pointed out, the Scribe has stated
at the end that he was unable to discover the author of it. The Tractatus
de Arithmetica, written sometimes with Arabic and sometimes with old
Roman arithmetical figures, is interesting; and, besides the ordinary rules
of arithmetic, contains many inquiries into figurative numbers. The
Quadratura Circuli begins with a quotation from Aristotle on the subject.
The Latin and Italian Poems (Egloghe, Sonetti, Capitoli, "Cerbero invoco"
and "Non aspetto giammai" translated into Latin) are partly in the autograph
of Chr. Fondi, who is quoted in the work of Marchesi on the History of
Forli, (p. 6G6) and are addressed to P. Guarini, who wrote the History of
Forli, from 1370 to 1464. A Sonetto colla coda, &c. by Fondi, beginning
with Oh bella cosa cli1 e la liberta, and ending with

" Fuor, fuor, fuor,
Che corti pin non sono :mzi cortil
Da capre, e Lovi, e porci fatto liovil "

shows that this poet knew how to appreciate the Italian Courts of his time.
The Regulce de cOmponendis Sonetis, although it is stated at the end that
they arc Auctore incognito, contain in reality an ancient Italian translation of .

134 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

an exceedingly interesting and almost unknown work by Antonio da Tempo,
composed in 1332, and printed in 8vo. at Venice in 1509. This manu-
script may be usefully employed for an edition of the Latin text with an
Italian translation of an ars poetica, written by a contemporary of Dante,
who is quoted in the work. The whole volume is full of geometrical,
astronomical, magical, and astrological figures. This manuscript belonged
to Alessandro Padovani, a celebrated collector of the sixteenth century
(see also Nos. 398, 507, &c. in the present Catalogue). At the end
the blank leaves seem to have been used by a tailor in the first part of the
sixteenth century, as they are filled with curious original designs for cutting
out coats, probably the earliest designs of the kind that have reached our time.

608 Libro chiamato de Costumi et perfectione della Monastica Conver-

satione 4<to. 8mc. xv. on paper

Written in a bold Italian hand, with the initial letter and first page sur-
rounded by a border illuminated in gold and colours. This work, in old
Italian and consisting of 226 leaves, is apparently unpublished.

609 Libro delle infermita e loro remedi (S^ec. xiv.) — Nicolai (Salernitani)

ADtidotarium (S.ec. xii-xiii.) — Segreti varj, Latine et Italice
(SiEC. xv. and xvi.) 4do. S^c. xii-xiii, xiv, xv, and xvi. on vellum

The first work written in good old Italian, and consisting of 58 leaves,
besides an index of four leaves, seems quite unknown. It has no title, and
we have therefore adopted one from a note at the beginning of the index.
The work begins with a note thus : " Questo libro si e tracto di molti
phylosophy giudei, greci, latini, el quele e tracto d' uno libro chiamato el
thesoro e generalmente t' insegna ogni cura in physica et in cerugisica
(sic), etc." followed by a letter of a Pseudo-Hippocrates, "Ad te Giulio
Agosto primo imperadore de Romani io Ypocrates phylosopho et medicho
del Re Guidofano d' India chome tu sai quando venesti in terra d'Egitto per
lo comune di Roma, questo si e lo libro lo quale to mi chiedesti. Ora te lo
mando per Diometrio mio famiglio, etc." This quotation alone shows
that the present work has no connexion with the well-known " Tesoro dei
Poveri," or with the " Tesoro di Brunetto Latini." The Antidotarium is a
work written in the twelfth century, by a Nicholaus of whom we know
very little, but who was one of the luminaries of the school of Salerno.
(See De Renzi, Collectio Salernitana, vol. I, p. 217). The Segreti are im-
portant; several relating to ingrain-dyes, etc., such as "Questa si e la
tinta secondo 1' usanza del Chairo di Babilonia che se po impinzere, cum
forme de legno omne drapo cenza pelo de questi colori in questo modo ne
mai sen va zoso per aqua ne per lavare, etc;" showing that about four
centuries ago the (supposed modern) mode of printing different colored designs
on cloth by the means of engraved blocks, was already known. This is a
most important fact, and if the subject could be examined
carefully at cairo, and compared with some facts which are
related by marco polo, the long vexata questio as to the origin
of Wood-Engraving and Block-Books, might be traced to an
Eastern Source. In the sixteenth century, this volume belonged to Io.
Fr. Vintu or Vinto, of Fuligno, who wrote on the margins (in 1562 and
subsequently) many singular memoranda relating to chemical and pharma-
ceutical sciences and even to private events, some of them being very curious.
Some other original annotations are written by other hands. At the
end of the first work there are several leaves (chiefly fol. 52, 53, 58 and 59)
which ARE palimpsests; the ancient handwriting of which still appears
in some letters, being very large and apparently of the ninth century.

610 Liceti (Fortunii) Epistola ad Clarissimum Virum Gabrielem Naudseum

( Solutio inctyti Gassendi JProblematis tenebricosissimi de Umbra
latiori a Sole in horizonte quam dum elatior, $fc.)

folio. 1638, on paper
An autograph Manuscript of twelve pages, and unpublished, dated Bononise Mense
Julii, mdcxxxviii. Liceti was a most learned author, who, unfortunately
for himself, became an opponent to Galileo.

THE LIBEI MAXUSCEIPTS. 135

611 Lippi (Lorenzo) Malmantile Eacquistato Poema di Perlone Zipoli

(Anagramma di L. Lippi) folio. S^ec. xvii. on paper

This interesting Manuscript of a famous Burlesque Poem, written by a celebrated
Florentine Painter and Poet, contains several corrections aud alterations,
Avhich in all probability, are in the handwriting of the author himself; as
nobody else could have ventured to change entire verses, etc. (See
Canto III, Stanza 41; C. VI. v. 61 and 93; C. VIII. v. 29 and 45, etc. etc.)

612 Lippi (Lorenzo) Malmantile racquistato, Leggenda di Perlone Zipoli

old red morocco, gilt edges 4<to. Smc. xvii. ON paper

This volume, which belonged to the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany, is a
transcript of this well known poem, in the autograph of Valerio
Spada, a celebrated Florentine caligrapher and sketcher in pen and ink,
the friend of the author, by whom he is mentioned in his poem. Prefixed
is a title page of elegant design (in pen and ink, representing a Painter at
the easel, a dog, bees, &c. with a Battle in the distance), in which the
Medici arms are conspicuously placed at the top. Each of the twelve cantos
has prefixed to it a clever pen and ink drawing, illustrative thereof, as a
vignette. This is a very interesting volume.

613 Lippi (Lorenzo) II Malmantile racqnistato, Poema

4tto. Sjsc. xvii. on paper

It is well known that this comic poem was in many instances altered by the
author himself. This manuscript of the time of the author offers some
variations from the edition of 1731, which is considered the best.

614 Lippi. Note di Puccio Lamoni sopra Malmantile

4ito. S.ec. xvii. ON PAPER
Puccio Lamoni, as is well known, was the Pseudonyme of Paolo Minucci.

615 Lira (Don Manuel de) Papel que dio a los Estados Generales de los

Provincias Unidas del Pais baxo al tiempo de salir del Haya para
volverse a Espafia el ano de 1679 sobre la Entrega de Mastrique
(Maestricht) in Spanish and French — Poesias del Conde de

VlLLAMEDIANA 4itO. S^C. Xvii. ON PAPER

Don Manuel de Lira was Envoy Extraordinary from Spain to settle the Spanish
losses at Maestricht, and as he appears to have met a refusal of his claims,
reprisals are threatened in this paper. The Conde de Villamediana was
one of the most agreeable Poets of the Court of Philip IV, and is supposed
to have been assassinated by the orders of that monarch, who suspected
him of being too intimate with his queen. His romantic love and tragic
death have been made the subject of modern romances.

616 LiTiiRGiA. Orationes pise, Psalmi, Hymni, Symbolum Athanasii et

Officia pro communicandis Infirmis et pro Delunctis. Accedit Trac-
tatulus de Arte moriendi cum Orationibus devotissimis

SVO. SMC. XV. ON VELLUM

Written on very stout vellum, with numerous musical notes. Prefixed is a
Calendar, a portion of which, as well as the first leaf of this ancient Service-
Book, is deficient.

617 Liyii (Titi) Perbrevis Summa de Eomanorum illustrium Gestis

Mo. S.EC. XV. ON PAPER

This manuscript contains the work usually printed as Decadum Epitome, and
exhibits several various readings, to give an instance of which it will suffice
to state that in an important passage of this work, recently quoted by M.
Merimee in his so deservedly admired La Guerre Sociale (p. 166) and con-
cerning which the learned author very ingeniously remarks that the common
reading, Marsos, is evidently an error of some scribe, the present manu-
script has instead Cimbros. The marginal annotations of this manuscript
seem to be, without any doubt, in the handwriting of the celebrated Her-
molaus Barbaras, who wrote the Pliny which is described, No. 807, in
the present Catalogue.

13G THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

618 Loghat-al-Sa'Idi-wa-al-'ArabI : A Saidic (Coptic dialect) and Arabic

Grammar and Dictionary folio. S^ec. xvii. on paper

This important manuscript is finely written in red and black, on glazed paper,
with an ornamental cross as frontispiece. To use the words of Mr. Neale
(a General Introduction to the History of the Eastern Church, vol. II. p. 1207,
plate) Coptic manuscripts are of excessive rarity, but it is still more difficult
to find ancient dictionaries and grammars of the Coptic language, which has
lately acquired so much importance from its connection with the ancient
Egyptian tongue. In order to appreciate the great intrinsic value of this
manuscript it will only be necessary to peruse what the two learned French
Orientalists, M. Reinaud, and M. Dulaurier, published on the subject when
describing a Coptic grammar and dictionar}^ now existing at Ai ontpellier.
{See Catalogue general des Manuscrits des Departements, p. 360, et 718.)

619 Longttion (Jacques de) Si comence le voue de paokfe (Roman en

Vers) folio. S^ec. xiv. on yelltjm

An unpublished poetical romance of chivalry, of upwards of 4000 lines. This
early manuscript was evidently written by an English scribe during the
fourteenth century, and is adorned with eight illuminations, in the first of
which the Feast of the Peacock is depicted, the other illuminations
representing warriors, battles, &c. On the fly-leaves are some curious memo-
randa in old English, with the prices paid, for instance, "Lady Gartyrede
glovys lid. For a boshelle of wette (wheat) vind. When y broutht lady
Gartyrede to London w* nil horses xvid. Itm when y parttyd wt your
lordeshp at Richemond comyng from Walsynggam and ix horses at md a
horse the some IIs IIId.11

This Vow of the Peacock is a Romance Poem (a branch of that
of Alexander) founded on the subject of a Peacock killed by mistake,
afterwards roasted, and forming the grand dish at the feast, whereat, in
the spirit of the times, the knights vow to perforin sundry feats of chivalry
and the ladies fidelity in love. The author has further embellished his
Poem with sundry accessories in the shape of such episodes as the famous
Tilting-Match, at the close of the ceremony, and the Adventures of the
Hermit Cassanus, the brother of a warrior killed in the service of Alexander,
who takes up arms to revenge his death.

As a specimen of the language we quote the first lines :

"A lentree de may qe yverns vait a declin
Qe cil oyseloun gay channtent en lour latin
Boys e pres reverdissent conntre le douze temprin
E nature senvoyse per soun sutil engyn.'

It is extremely valuable for the insight it affords into the manners both of
chivalry and gallantry in the thirteenth century. For an account of this
Poem, see Notices des Manuscripts (vol. V, p. 117). Although we have attri-
buted this Romance of Chivalry to Jacques de Longuion, on the authority
of a long note prefixed to this manuscript, in the handwriting of the learned
Meon, the last publisher of the Roman de la Rose, we must, however, add
that M. Paulin Paris, in his capital work {Les Manuscrits Frangais de la
Biblioiheque du Hoi, vol. Ill, p. 102 and 10G) seems inclined to believe
that the author of this Poem is still unknown. M. P. Paris states that
this romance " presente un grand interest pour les mceurs galantes et cheva-
lieres du XIII siecle." A more modern copy (of the fifteenth century,
and without illuminations) of the same Romance, Les voeux du Paon, was,
in 1836, at the Hcber Sale of Manuscripts (No. 1395), bought by Messrs.
Payne and Foss for more than forty pounds.

G20 Lopez (Pedro) Relacton del Peru 4fo. SiEC. xvi. on paper

A very important Manuscript, hitherto unpublished, and even unknown to N.
Antonio (SeeBtbl. Tlisp. Nova. vol. II, p. 209). From the dedication and
the beginning of the work, it appears that this valuable production con-
tains a narration of everything that occurred in Peru for the thirty years

THE LIBEI MANUSCBIPTS. 137

previous to 1570, in which year this Relation, consisting of 93 leaves of full
and interesting information, was written. As a Pedro Lopez, a native of
Carthagena in America, published a work on Surgery at the beginning of the
XVIIth century, it is probable that the present work was written by him.

621 Lotsaldi monachi gesta S. Odilonis in compendium redacta

4ito. Sjec. xvii. on paper

622 Loyola (S. Ignatio) Vita di 2 vols. 4<to. S^ec. xviii. on paper

Apparently unpublished, and full of curious information.

623 Lucani Pharsalia 4ft? . Sjec. xiii. on yellum

With the name of an early possessor, " Iste lucanus est macri filii Benaduxis
de Macris qui moratur in contrata Santi Romani. Deo gratias. Amen.1'
This valuable manuscript is written in a narrow shape (only 9| inches by
5f ) leaving much space for glosses, of which there are here two descriptions ;
some very old, and most probably taken from much more ancient manu-
scripts, and some of the fifteenth century. In the ninth book, where
Lucan, describing the world then known, says, Tertia pars rerum Lybie si
credere fame, etc., there is in the margins of this manuscript a map of the
most curious description, which affords an additional proof of the imperfect
popular notions of the time respecting general geography. This manuscript
belonged formerly to the Carmelite Congregation of St. Paul at Ferrara,
and is mentioned by Zacharia, in his "Iter literarium per Italiam" (vol. II,
p. 158). The ancient commentary is full of valuable information, and the
text of Lucan is very pure, and generally confirms the best readings of the
modern editions.

624 Lucidario. Comincia el Libro del Maestro, et del Diseepolo. —

Horologio della Sapientia (Dialogo fra Diseepolo e Sapientia)

4:to. SiEC. xvii. (1642) on paper

A transcript (with the date 1642), in the autograph of Antonio Rovelascho, of
two celebrated ascetical works, written several centuries before.

625 Lucbetii Cari (T.) de Rerum Natura Libri VI.

vellum small narrow folio. SiEC. xiv. ON yellum

Finely written on 185 leaves of pure Italian vellum, with the initial capital of each
book illuminated in gold and colours. At the bottom of the first page are
painted the arms of the owner. The extreme rarity of manuscripts of
Lucretius is such, that Hsenel found only four in all his literary journey;
that very few could be found by Mr. Valpy throughout England, all but
one of the fifteenth century, or of a later date ; and that no manuscript of
Lucretius is mentioned in the great Catalogus Biblioihecce Region Parisiensis,
nor in the printed catalogues of the celebrated libraries of Ravenna, Turin,
St. Mark at Venice, &c. The great Imperial library of Vienna possesses
only a manuscript of Lucretius (of the XVth century) besides a fragment
of the Xth. (See Hendlicher Catal. p. 54-55.) The present manuscript
exhibits a very plire text, with various readings, taken either from some
other codex, or else conjectural, written by the scribe himself on the margin.
As a sample, we select Book I, line 9, diffusum has written over it diffuso ;
line Jl, referabilis, on margin genitabilis; line 39, turbantem — recubantem ;
line 55, solemus — suemus, &c. The numerous headings to be found in
this manuscript wherever a change of subject occurs, are interesting, but do
not appear to have ever been printed. The various readings it contains
have not been pointed out, and the presumption therefore is that this
important Codex is still uncollated. As a specimen of the varise lectiones
we select from Book VI. :

Manuscript. Valpy's Edition.

Line 1 6 — Pausa atque infestis Causa qua? infestis

18 — Qua? collata foris et comoda- Qua? con lata foris et conmoda

tmnque venire quomque venirent

21 — conspirare conspurcare

At the beginning, there is a title written about a century ago. " Codex
LXI. Bibliothecae Fr. Alovsi Baroni Ord. Scrv. B. M. V. Emptus Roma?.

138 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

Lucretius de Rerum Natura, lib. VI, Codex Saec. XIV." This Fr. Luigi
Baroni is the person who, in 1789, republished in Paris the Filostrato of
Boccaccio, as if it had never been printed before.

It is well known that only a portion of Lucretius was generally known
until, in the fifteenth century, the celebrated Poggio discovered, in his
travels, the portion which was missing. The present transcript, from some
older codex, besides the numerous various readings and curious headings,
contains most important transpositions of different parts of the poem, which
are disposed in quite a different order from that in which they stand in
the printed editions. (See, for instance, lib. I, v. 950 — 994, &c.) In all
probability it was taken from a different and more ancient source than
the manuscripts discovered by Poggio, who, probably, having only frag-
ments at his disposal, was obliged to fill up the deficiencies conjecturally.
(See for a similar case the description of the manuscript of Aratus, No. 62
in the present Catalogue). To add further interest to this volume, we
need only point out that several leaves in this manuscript are palimpsest,
or rescripts, and show the ancient characters (which, although defaced,
are still visible sometimes at straight angles with the modern writing),
namely, at folios 22, 36, 38, 42, 49, 53, 58, 59, 65-68, 75, 81, 82, 85, 86,
90, 91, 95, 106, 109, 111, 115-120, 125, 132, &c. The mere fact of this
being a palimpsest is an additional proof of the antiquity of the manu-
script, as, after the fourteenth century, vellum became so common in Italy,
that it was useless to make palimpsests, which, even in manuscripts of that
century, are of very rare occurrence.

626 Ltjdotjici Piissimi Aitgttsti Epistola ad Hilb-tjinttm abbatem.

... de colligendis ... historiis ex pretiosissima Martyris Dionisii
notitia, &c. — Hildtttjikt ad Chludouuicum Augustum responsio —
HiLDUuiisT Areopagitica
original binding 4to. Bjeic. ix. on yellttm (53 leaves)

Nothing is more important in the ecclesiastical history of France than the
Areopagitica, which gave rise during the seventeenth century to such violent
discussions. The manuscripts of the Areopagitica are very scarce and
comparatively modern, as we see that even in the great printed "Catalogus
Bibl. Regise Parisiensis,1' only six manuscripts of this work are quoted, one
of the eleventh, and the others of the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries. But nothing is more rare than to find an old manu-
script of the Epistola Ludouici, and the same Catalogue of the Parisian
Library describes only one (and that of the fourteenth century) of this last
celebrated work. As Haenel did not find a single manuscript of this kind
during his literary journey through Europe we are entitled to suppose that
this is, perhaps, the oldest of all the manuscripts of this collection in existence
either here or on the continent. (See also No. 491 in the present Catalogue).

The present manuscript in fine Carlovingian characters, with the rubrics
and titles in Rustic capitals, was certainly written during the life-
time, or a few years only after the death of Hilduinus, who is supposed
to have died about the year 842. At the beginning the heading is
beautifully written in red and green, in capital Rustic characters. The
Areopagitica are slightly defective at the end. Amongst the interesting
things, which might be gleaned from this manuscript, we find the mention of
Beda Sanctus Presbiter. The numerals are all expressed by Roman
letters, and the name of the Emperor is spelt in both ways, Ludovicus and
Chludouuicus, as we have shown at the beginning. (See facsimile.)

627 Ludovisio (Cardinal) Istruttioni date a diversi Ministri per tutto il

Tempo del Pontificato della Santa Memoria di Gregorio XV. suo Zio
e fatte da Monsig*. Aguchia all' hora Segretario di Stato di S. Bne.
old red morocco folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

A volume, consisting of about one thousand pages, of great historical interest,
especially the instructions to the Abp. of Patras, when proceeding as
Nuncio into Flanders, containing several particulars respecting the unfor-
tunate M. A. De Dominis Abp. of Spalatro, and the instructions given to
M>. Massimi Bp. of Bertinoro, sent as Nuncio to Spain, with a Dispensation

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 139

for marrying the King's sister to Charles I, then Prince of Wales. These
instructions show how at that period the Roman court was wont to meddle
with the political interests of the whole of Europe, and particularly with
those of England and Ireland. About De Dominis, a curious fact is related
(leaf 111), namely, that his opinions were opposed at that time in a work
written by the celebrated Jansenius, of whom the Cardinal Ludovisio says,
"Giovanni Giansenio che ha la prima cathedra (in the University of Louvain),
huomo piissimo, ma che non ha il valore alia pieta inferiore .... dovra V. S.
render certa V Universita e la persona del Giansenio, quanto ella acquinti di
merito e di loda e da Sua Beatitudine si riceva V opera a grado." This is
the celebrated Giansenio who afterwards became himself so obnoxious to
Home. These Istruttioni well illustrate what we read on this subject in the
admirable Port Royal, by M. Sainte Beuve, (vol. I. p. 304).

628 Lupo (Bisantio) Libro delle cose di Giovenazzo copiato da uno antico

manoscritto — Marinelli (Griiis.) Compendio del Dominic- di Napoli
e successione di Eilippo secondo, vellum folio. S^ec. xvii. on paper

A very important manuscript. None of these works are mentioned in the
Coleti Catalogue, or in Tiraboschi. Toppi speaks of this work of Lupo,
and says it is very important, but known only as existing in manuscript.
Riccio, Soria and Giustiniani are all silent concerning the work of Lupo,
which is written in a dialect almost Neapolitan, and truly invaluable, as it
contains the most minute information concerning the history of a Neapo-
litan provincial town and of the life and manners of its inhabitants up to
the year 1530. The work of Marinelli, dated Molfetta, 15 Gennaro, 1596,
is dedicated to Ferrando Gonzaga, Prince of Molfetta, and is written with
great freedom ; it was published in the fourth volume of the Raccolta di
Cronache Napoletane.

629 Machiavelli (Niccola) Storie Florentine folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

Manuscripts of any of the works of Machiavel are very scarce. The text in this
is very good.

630 Maffei (M. di) Eaccolta di Sonettt e Canzone, con Tavola. Soneti

et Canzone di diversi Autori fatti in questo libro da me Maffio de
Maffei in nome della magnifica Signora Camilla Pizuola Cittadina
Trivigiana Svo. S^ec. xvi. (1575) on paper

An autograph manuscript, which appears never to have been published, although it
is entirely prepared for the press, with even the dedication to Camilla Pizuola.
It contains besides verses by M. Gradenigo di Padoa, L. Ariosto, B. Olimpo
and F. Petrarca, upwards of 100 poems by Maffei himself, chiefly amatory,
addressed to Camilla. At the end of the volume are thirteen closely
written pages, " Lettere d'amore fatte par me Manffio Maffei." This
M. Maffei was of Treviso, and is not mentioned by Quadrio or Tiraboschi.
Ancient manuscripts containing the Rime delV Ariosto are very scarce.
This exhibits a very good text, and not only has it valuable various readings,
but it contains also some poems attributed to Ariosto, which elsewhere were
published under the names of other poets. For instance, the sonnet, "Ite vaghi
augelletti al dolce tetto," which is here attributed to Ariosto, was formerly
published amongst the Rime of Tibaldeo. The Rime del Petrarca contained
in this volume are undoubtedly forgeries, as is clear from the stanza prima
(page 307) which here begins : " Son i vostri occhij archibugetti a ruota,"
not only because such guns were not invented at that time, but also because
the comparison is ridiculous.

631 Maffei (Marchese Scipione) Sugerimento per la perpetua Presser-

vazione della Serenissima Eepublica Veneta proposto nell' Anno
1736 4£o. SiEC. xviii. on paper (88 leaves)

An unpublished and interesting work of the celebrated author of the Merope
and Verona Illustrata. The principles of the writer are very liberal.
This work is not mentioned by any biographer of Maffei we have been
able to peruse.

140 THE LIBKI MANUSCRIPTS.

632 Maffei (P.) Logica, Physica, Mathematica et Metaphysica, cum Figuris

20 vols. Mo. 1761-63, on paper

Written by the learned Jesuit, and evidently intended for publication. This
enormous work is very valuable, and contains curious philosophical discus-
sions. One whole volume is filled with fine figures, executed in pen and ink.

633 Magagnati (Girolamo) Lettere a diversi

vellum 4do. SiEC. xvii. on paper

This is an exceedingly curious manuscript, evidently prepared for publication,
with a Dedication to Giulio Melchiori, signed "Rocho Agudi," and dated
" Venetia, li X Gen. 1620." Girolamo Magagnati, the author of the
poetical Play La Clomira, and of several very rare Capitoli burleschi
printed at Norimbergh 1643, in 12mo. was one of the most curious characters
of the seventeenth century. By profession he was a provision merchant,
who, whilst sending his wines, sausages, &c. &c. to the Grand Duke of Tus-
cany, or the Queen of France, or other Princes, accompanied them, every
now and then, with his poetical works. Several of the letters contained in
this manuscript are addressed to the great Galileo, who, we know, was
by no means indifferent to good living. In the great edition, now almost
complete, of the works of Galileo, published at Florence by M. Alberi,
under the patronage of the present Grand Duke of Tuscany, there are
some letters written by Magagnati to Galileo, but our manuscript contains
others still unpublished. Besides those to Galileo, and several Princes,
there are letters of Magagnati, addressed to the Cavalier Marino, to Chia-
brera, 0. Rinuccini, the Crusca Academy (in which he was inscribed) &c. &c.
At the end there is a Capitolo in verse, addressed by Magagnati to Rinuccini,
" In lode dell' Invidia."

631 Magalotti (Conte Lorenzo) Lettere sti le Terre odorose d'Europa e
d' America dette volgarmente Buccheri scritte alia Signora Marchesa
Strozzi — Canzone al Signor Marchese Gr. V. Sal via ti — Poesie
Toscane sopra i Buccheri di Cile, di Gruadalaxara e di Nata alia
Signora Marchesa Strozzi folio. S^ec. xvii. (1695) on paper

This manuscript contains many things which are not in the edition which was
given at Milan, in 1825, of these truly interesting letters, up to that time
unpublished, and of which, a single manuscript is mentioned by Gamba.
From several marginal corrections, this fine manuscript, as well as the three
following, seems to have been written under the inspection of Magalotti
himself; and, as it was formerly in the Strozzi Library at Florence, in all
probability it was the identical volume presented by Magalotti to the
Marchioness Strozzi.

635 Magalotti (Conte Lorenzo) Canzoniere della Donna immaginaria e

Copia di Lettera al Sig. Paolo Falconieri, Firenze 5 Settre* 1690

folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper
This manuscript contains here and there (see leaves 72 and 111) some altera-
tions in the handwriting of the celebrated author himself, who, as is
well known, was the Secretary of the Academy Del Cimento, and one of
the earliest members of the Royal Society of London.

636 Magalotti (Conte Lorenzo) Lettere contro a gli Atei

2 vols, folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper
A copy of this celebrated work made in the tune of the author, and presented
by him to Abate Mazzetti.

637 Magalotti (Conte Lorenzo) Lettera al P. D. Angelo Quirino sopra un

Passo del Concilio Niceno ed altre Lettere (Scientifiche ed erudite)

folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper
This manuscript, written by the Secretary of Magalotti, has an autograph
heading of the author at the beginning. The volume contains also several
interesting letters between Lord Somers and Magalotti, one relating to
some exquisite instruments made in England at the beginning of the
eighteenth century.

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 141

638 Magta. Dissertazione circa la Stregeria con Appendice della Magia

Diabolica — Dissertatio de Sanctorum Cultu et Invocatione, necnon
de Veneratione Reliquiarum et Sanctarum Imaginum — Disser-
tazione intorno ai veri e falsi Miracoli

in 1 vol. 4ito. SiEC. xviii. (1777) on paper

Three very learned Dissertations in the anonymous author's autograph.

639 Magnani (Anton. Vincenzio) Istoria dello 'nvitto e valoroso Principe

Don Florismondo Principe di Bretagna e d'altri famosi Cava-
lieri erranti di quel tempo ; ove si raccontano le loro maravigliose
Imprese e piacevoli Amori 2 parts in 1, Mo. SiEC. xvi. on paper

An autograph manuscript of a Romance of Chivalry, written inTreviso about 1560,
hitherto unpublished, and unknown even to Count Melzi. Don Floris-
mond's father is named Armato Re di Bretagna, and his mother, Auriana,
is called Sister of Carlo, King of Scotland. The story is feigned to be
from the pen of Heliodorus the Wise, and is divided into two parts, in the
second of which the author has introduced a canzonetta, entitled "La Rosa."

640 Magnini (Carlo Antonio, " Romano ") Breve Discorso sopra le Forti-

ficationi folio. 1644, on paper

This author is not mentioned by Tiraboschi.

641 Mahmud 'Ure Khwajah Jahan (Munshi) the " Riyazat-al-Insha ; "

being the Correspondence of Muhammad Shah Bahman II, in
Persian, written by his Munshi, or Secretary

Mo. Sjec. xviii. on glazed paper
Very interesting for the local history.

642 Malatesta (Monsignor Giuseppe) Storia dell' Interdetto di Yenetia

(1605) folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper

From an old memorandum on the first page, it appears that the author of this
important work, of which we cannot find any mention in Tiraboschi, Coleti,
etc., was a particular friend of Pope Paul V. It is well known how much
interest the celebrated Fra Paolo Sarpi took in this Interdetto.

643 Maldachini (Donna Olimpia) Vita di

vellum folio. Sjsc. xviii. on paper

This manuscript has important variations from the work attributed to the Abate
Gualdi. See also No. 459 in the present Catalogue.

644 Malta. Instituto ed Ordinationi de' Cavalieri della Religione di

Malta folio. $mc. xvii. (1669) on paper

This copy belonged to a Knight Commander of the Order, and bears the follow-
ing inscription: Questo Libro delV Ordinationi e dell III"10. Sig. Com. Fra
Roberto Solarifatto nelV Anno corrente del 1669, nel Mese di Luglio incomin-
ciato alii 8 del d° efinito alii 17."

645 Mandeville (Johannis de, " Militis Anglicani ") Itineraritjm a Terra

Anglise in Partes Iherosolymitanas et in ulteriores transmarinas
Anno Domini mccclv, calf Mo. S^c. xv. on paper

An important manuscript of the Itinerary of Sir John Mandeville.

646 Manilii Astronomicon — Canones super Tabulas Alfoncii Regis

Castellse — Ptholomei Centilogium cum Comento Albugasari
— Joannes de Sacrobosco de Sphsera (Germanice) — Tabula Regis
Alfoncii, &c. folio. SiEC. xiv. on paper

An interesting collection. Prefixed is a leaf of vellum of great historical impor-
tance, as on the authority of his father, Sifridus Schleint gives particulars, in
German, of the war between Bishop Adolph of Nassau and Duke Ruprecht
of Heidelberg, Anno Domini mccclxxii, which, as is stated in an old note,
Trithemius and Lehman have erroneously ascribed to the year 1381.

112 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

Manuscripts of Manilii Astronomicon are of such extreme rarity that one only is
mentioned in the great "Catalogus Bibliothecae Regime Parisiensis," and none
in the printed Catalogues of the Public Libraries of Turin, Venice, Ravenna,
etc. Hsenel did not find a single manuscript of Manilius during his travels,
and one only is described by Bandini as existing in the Medicean Library.
The present one is not complete at the end. The various tabula (one
chronological with the Eras of Nabuchadnezzar, Alexander, &c.) contain
Arabic numerals throughout.

617 Manspelt (Pierre Ernst Comte de) Lettres a sa Fille Madame la
Princesse de Mansfelt et a son Cousin le Comte Charles de Mansfelt

folio. Smc. xvi. ON PAPER

Four letters addressed to his daughter, one entirely autograph, dated "xii. de May,
1594," and the three others (1595, 1596 and 1601) signed by him. Also five
other letters to his Cousin Charles, two entirely autograph, two signed, and
one without signature. As is well known P. E. De Mansfelt, one of
the greatest warriors of his time, succeeded Alexander Farnese, in the
general command of the low countries for the King of Spain.

6-18 Manttjani (Baptistse) S. Georgius Cappadocise (Poema) ab Astensio
familiariter explanatus 4ito. Sjec. xvi. (circa 1501) on paper

This manuscript appears to have been written by an English Scribe, and has
several explanations in his native tongue. At the beginning there are
some Latin verses in praise of England, commencing " Aiiglia terra ferax,"
&c. At the end is the following colophon ; " Orate pro anima Joannis
Modei Capell hujusce possessoris ac Roberti Calcati ejusdem scriptorisT

619 Manucci (Aldo) Eleganze Latine e Toscane

4<to. S,ec. xvi. (1583) on paper

With the date of " the purchase of the blank book," " Emptus est Calendis
Decembris mdlxxxiii." The small handwriting has a great resemblance
with the handwriting of the younger Aldus contained in Tasso's Gerusalemme
and other works, with autograph annotations by the same Aldus, formerly
in the possession of Bishop Butler.

650 Manuel Hydrographique des quatre Parties du Monde avec la Situation

geographique des Ports de Mer les plus fr^quentes de la Terre
French red morocco, gilt edges 12mo. Sjec. xviii. (1782) on paper

Written at Marseilles in 1782, on 442 pages. On the title-page is the autograph
of the celebrated Sir Sydney Smith. The portion relating to America,
extends from page 260 to page 332.

651 Mar'aI HanbalI (Shaikh) " Tarikh Bait-al-Mukaddas," The History of

Jerusalem, in Arabic 4<to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

This manuscript, written in the Naskh character, was copied anno Hegirse 1106
(a.d. 1694), and contains also the Story of Joseph (Kissah Yusuf), and a
Commentary on the poetical works of 'Omar Ibn al-Fariz (Sharh-al-Diwan
Ibn-al-Fariz,) by Hassan Ibn Muhammad-al-Burni. The Tarikh Bait-al-
Mukaddas is a most important work, written anno Hegiras 900 (a.d. 1494).
and giving an interesting account of the crusades. It begins with the his-
tory of the Creation, followed by the lives of Adam, Abraham, Solomon,
Mohammed, and all the prophets and patriarchs. It relates the foundation
ot Jerusalem ; the downfall of Jerusalem by Bakt-Nasr (Nebuchad-
nessar ?) and its repair by Korush (Cyrus ?) King of Persia ; its ruin
by the hand of Titus ; the adversity of the Jews ; the invasion of Jerusalem
by Caliph 'Omar ; its rebuilding by 'Abd-al-Malik Ibn Marwan ; the fall of
the Ka'bah, and its rebuilding by the same 'Abd-al-Malik. The description
of the pilgrimages undertaken by the adherents of Mohammed to Jerusalem ;
an account of the crusades ; the fall of Jerusalem into the hands of the
Crusaders ; the reconquest of that town by Sultan Salah-al Din Yusuf ;
the defeat of the French ; and the reconquest of Palestine by the Moham-
medans.

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 143

652 Marcheselli (Stefano " Gesuita") Contezza del Yindario Poema di

Giovanni Filoteo Achillini Bolognese con Vita dello stesso Achillini

folio. S^)C. xviii. on paper

In the autograph of Marcheselli, who prepared the work for the press, but
never printed it. The Viridario is an exceedingly scarce Italian poem,
printed at Bologna in 1 574, in 4to, and very important for the scientific
history of Italy, as (amongst other things) it contains the only contemporary
mention of Scipio Ferro, who first resolved the cubic equations. Achillini
was a great collector of books, pictures, medals, &c. This important un-
published biography was totally unknown to Fantuzzi, Mazzuchelli, &c.
and we can not find the name of Marcheselli in the great work of the Fathers
De Backer on the Ecrivains de la compagnie de Jesus.

653 Marchetti (Signore) Diario del Viaggio della Serenissima Gran Du-

chessa della Toscana folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

A very interesting account of the journey of the Grand Duchess to Paris and
back, but unfortunately damaged in the top margin by damp. The manu-
script has some autograph corrections, and seems quite unknown, no
mention of it being made in the " Bibliografia Toscana," by Moreni. Amongst
the curious things relating to this interesting Diario, there is a narration of
a fishing party which took place at Fontainebleau, where the fish were
caught by birds (cormorants) as is the practice even now in China.

654 Maria (B. Virgo) cunctis pretiosis Lapidibus assimilata et aliis Sym-

bolicis Laudibus decorata 2 vols. 4<to. S^c. xvi. on paper

A very curious, and, according to a note on the title, unpublished, manuscript,
probably written by a member of the order fratrum minorum, as a more
ancient copy of it is stated to have existed in the Library "Fratrum Minorum
Annuntiationis, Bononise."

655 Mari2e (S. Virginis) Lilii Folia sive Elogium Marianum

4<tO. S^EC. Xvii. ON PAPER

The volume contains also several Latin elogia on Charles V. and Philip II
of Spain, &c.

656 Maria (B. Virgo). Cultus immaculatse Conceptionis B. Marise semper

Virginis, adjunctis Litaniis Lauretanis, omnium Sanctorum, Defunc-
torum et septem Psalmis pcenitentialibus Viennse Calamo delineatus
a Carolo Jos. M. de H. Anno 1645 (seu potius 1715)
blue morocco, gilt edges, in case 12<mo. Sjec. xviii. (1715) on yellum

A fine specimen of caligraphy, with capital letters of elegant design, drawn in
pen and ink. The original date seems to have been 1715, altered after-
wards into 1645.

657 Markandeta Purana, in Sanscrit oblong folio. S^ec. xviii. on paper

Beautifully written in a large fine hand, upon Oriental paper, ruled with red
lines. This is a great poem celebrating the victory of the goddes Pilrvati
against the giant Moisasur.

658 Marsilii, " Medicine Monarchse et Artium Doctoris famosissimi,"

Abreviata Libri Phisicorum (Aristotelis) exposita et tradita Parisii

folio. Sjec. xv. (1463) on paper

The name of the scribe, who concludes with a pious prayer for his ancestors, is

obliterated, but we learn that it was " scripta per me (Joh.

Franciscum de Guateris) hoc die xxii decembris 146iii hora secunda ?wctis
sequentis diei, d-c." and that the price was one golden ducat, " Pretium est
ad me ducatus 1 auri." Another inscription at the end shows that it was
purchased by Joh. Matth. ex Ferrariis, from " Joh. Francisco de Guateris
Bidello in prossenti anno 1470 die 14 Febriwrii."

114 THE LIBEI MANTTSCBIPTS.

659 Mabsilius be Pulsibus Eebrium. Explicit IAhellus de Pulsibus

Febrium editwn (sic) per famosissimum JMarsilium Scriptumque otnni
diligentia et Cura per Dartlwlomeum Oynthium so. Pisaurensem
mbv. die 12a Octobris liora xxia Deo favente — Avicenn^e Liber
Canonis {per eundem scriptus) folio. S.ec. xvi. (1505) on paper

At the end is bound up Auicennce Canonis Liber quintus, finely written on
vellum during the fifteenth century, with the initial capital illuminated in
gold and colours. This last portion has signatures at the bottom of the
pages.

660 Martenenghi (S. Maria Maddalena, " Abadessa delle Capucine * di

Brescia") Avvertimenti spirituali ed exortatorii con varie Lettere

folio. S.EC. xviii. on paper

681 Martialis (M. Yalerii) De Spectaculis Libellus et Epigrammata
vellum small Mo. oblong size. SiEC. xv. on vellum and paper

A very valuable manuscript, with, signatures to the sheets, and the name of the
scribe, " Johandel Novellinus scripsit." The various readings are important,
and shew that the copy has been made from an excellent and early original,
in which was to be found the h in such words as thauro for tauro, harena for
arena, &c. &c. In IV. de Spectaculis, this manuscript reads Traducta est
Gaitulis, as suggested by Junius, instead of Geticis of the Bodleian Codex, or
the tradita Gaitidis of the printed editions. In VII. of the same book, line 7, is
written Denique supplicium sceleri par venit acerbum, in red ink, instead of
the usual Denique suppUcium dederat necis ille paternal. In XVI, cum fert
mine stegma juvenilis, instead of confer nunc schema juvenci. In Epig. I,
Quid igitur in ilia appetit et placet t tussit, instead of Quid ergo in ilia
petitur et placet ? Tussit. To show that this Codex has never yet been
collated, we give from it (leaf 7) Epigram XLVI. of Book I. entire

" Edita ne brevibus pereat mihi cura libelhs
Dicatur potius Ton dapanribomenon"

as the editor of Valpy's Edition states, " nulla lectionis varietas est in
exemplaribus" and yet gives charta for cura, and $aira.fji.eifl6ixevos. In
Epigram XXVIII, the following variations occur, totally unnoted by
him : Tu factam tibi jam, instead of rem — Exemplum nimio periculosum,
for Exemplo nimium periculoso. — Monolimpotim nitore Procille, for
Micrw fjLV7)iJLOva avfxiroTTiv, Procille.

662 Martini Poloni, " de Ordioe Eratrum Praodicatorum," Chronica

SlTMMORUM PONTIFICUM ATQUE ImPERATORUM RoMANORTTM USque

ad Nicolaum III, cum Continuatione usque ad Mortem Johannis
XXII, a.d. mcccxxxiv. die quarta Mensis Decembris

4itO. S^lC. xiv. ON VELLUM

A very complete copy of the famous " Chronica Martiniana," with all the sup-
pressed passages, including the Story of Pope Joan, " Johannes Nacione
Anglicus Moguntinus sedit annis ii, m. v. diebus viii, &c. Hie ut asseritur
femina fuit," &c. The author was " Pamitentiarius et Capellanus " to Pope
Nicholas III, who created him Archbishop of Gniesen. At the end,
amongst several additional matters, there are some curious ancient French
proverbs ; for instance, " Sire Melline bien vous escoute, Un tien vault
mieux que deux en doubte."

663 Martiniana Cronica. Martini Poloni Chronica Surumorum Ponti-

ficum Romanoruin ac Imperatorum, &c.
calf folio. Sjec. xiv. on vellum

A most valuable manuscript (containing the Life of Pope Joan, usually wanting in
manuscripts, and therefore without any foundation asserted to have been forged
by the Lutherans), written circa 1380. At the end are a few memoranda
written in a more recent hand, respecting Pope Gregory, elected in 1415,
" qui adhuc est Papa" and ten pages in French, " Les Mcrveilks et les

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 145

Indulgences de Rome." On the last page is written ll Cronica ista Martini-
ana est Monasterii Sa. Marie de la Caritate Quam Venerabilis Doctor
X psbiter dfis lucas de cantarellis de Regio liberaliter p1fato loco donavit
p. Aia sua. Paulus de verona scripsi Gratias Cristo Dno nro." The
" Merveilles de Rome," in a very old French, seem unpublished. This work
is a translation of the " Mirabilia Romse," a favorite work printed at Trevise
in 1475, and often reprinted during the fifteenth century.

664* Mathematica. — Elys (Richardi) Tractatus de Spera sive de Mundi
Machina et Practica Astrolabii (the work usually attributed to
Johannes a Sacrobosco) — Compotus Manuale secundum Usum
Oxon. (Metrice cum commento) — Algorismus secundum Usum
Oxoisr. (Poema cum commento) — Varia de Impressionibus, deRore,
Pruina, Pluvia, Nive, Grandine, Ignibus in Aere, Cometis, Ventis,
Iride, Salsedine Maris, Fluxu et Refluxu, Terra? Motu et Tonitruo.
Poneerum Tabulae small 4ito. Sjec. xiv. on vellum

A most interesting and valuable manuscript with diagrams, written during the
fourteenth century by an English Scribe, and probably containing the
Course of Mathematics as used in Oxford University at the time when
written. If all of these works were written by Richard Elys, or
Anguillarianus as he is styled by Leland (vol. I, p. 245) and who died
in 1195 or previously (see Tanner, p. 626, and Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. II,
p. 245) Sacrobosco must have transcribed them whilst pursuing his studies
at Oxford, and this may account for their being attributed to him by the
copyists from his manuscript. Although to decide whether these works
were originally written by R. Elys or by Sacrobosco is not within our
province, yet, at any rate, an ancient manuscript which is connected
both with the early course of studies at Oxford and the celebrated
dispute about the origin of modern arithmetic, deserves a special atten-
tion. We know that Hugh, the Lincoln saint, lectured upon Arithmetic
at Oxford, but we could not find anything in the works of Wood or else-
where respecting this Algorismus secundum usum Oxoniensem. The
manuscript which contains many English annotations, and the names of
old English owners written at different times (namely Rob. Davies, Guill..
Marshal, John Hutchenson, Scholmaister of Castleacre, in Norfolk, etc.)
has the name of R. Elys, written hi full by the scribe at the end of the
Tractatus de machina mundi (reverse of leaf 18), but only his initials R. E.
at the end of the Practica Astrolabii. The first of those works is in
prose and verse, and between it and the other are some explanations relating
to the origin of the Signs of the Zodiac, with diagrams relating to eclipses,
geography, etc. We must, moreover, point out that the Tractatus de Spera
contained in this manuscript, offers curious variations from the various
editions published under the name of Sacrobosco, for example, that by
Ratdolt, of 1482. The Poema de Algorisino contained in this manuscript,
which begins with " Hec Algorismus ars presens dicitur in qua," is the same
which was published by Mr. Halliwell in his Rara Mathematica, under the
name of " Alexander de Villa Dei carmen de Algorismo." In this manu-
script, that Poem, which contains, for instance, the Tabula Pythagorica,
differs very much from the edition. The commentary also is quite different
from the three commentaries quoted by Mr. Halliwell. Most worthy of
notice is it to find in an early work intended for the study of Mathematics
in the Oxford University, that the science of modern arithmetic was taught,
and the notion of its Indian origin stated as a matter of course.

665 Mathematict Veteres, scilicet: Euclidis Geometria, Optica,
et Catoptrica, cum Eiguris — Jordani (Magistri), De Al-
gorismo cum commento — De Menttciis cum commento —
Gerardi de Bkussel Liber de Motu — Archimedes de Quadra-
tura Circuli — De Curvis Sepereiciebus et de Spelepa Liber
Magistri Johannis de Tinennic — Theodosii de Speris libri tres —

L

146 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

Alma ge stum Incerti Auctoris — De Composittotste Rationum —
Eltolidis data — Alfrag-ani Astronomiae Rudimenta Interprete
Johanne Hispaniensi, vellum 4to. Sjec. xii. (1170) on yellum

This most important collection of mathematical works has every appearance of
having been written in England, as several English names are written in
it, one of the most ancient being lohis Ffysher (sic) on the first leaf,
and this critical inscription Par un emittant men (written in the thirteenth
century to criticise an older Latin inscription in the third leaf). At the
end of the Alfraganus there is the following note of the same time :

" Finito libro frangantur crura magistri. Perfectus lib Alfragani in sua astror et
radiclb motuu celestium Int'ptus a lobe Isspaniensi atque lunensi et expletus est 20
(?) die 5 (sic) meusis lunaris anni arabum qulgentesimi xxviiii (sic) Existente
XI (sic) msis die marcii clxsm (sic) sub di laude."

We have here given the curious mixture, which is in the manuscript, of
Arabic and Latin figures, showing that at that period, Christian scribes
were not yet well acquainted with Arabic figures. As the year 529 of
the Hegira (A.D. 1134, 21st October) has nothing to do with our year 1170
(or clxx.m. put in the right order) and as also the 529th year of the Hegira
having commenced on the 21st of October, the fifth month of the Arabians
could not then agree with the eleventh month of the Christian year, we
must assume that this last date (1170), which perfectly agrees with the
form of the handwriting, is that of the manuscript itself, and that it is
therefore one of the most ancient documents with a date, containing
Arabic numerical figures, which, in a peculiar form (in some cases a very
singular one), are to be found in several places of it. According to M.
Chasles (Apergu Historique, p. 510), this manuscript might even be abso-
lutely supposed to be the first, as speaking of the work of Albumazar
with the date of 1171 existing in the Magliabechi Library at Florence, the
learned author says :

" Elle est pr^cieuse (cette version) en ce qu'elle contient des tables astronomiques
en cbiifres Arabes. Ce sont peut etre les plus anciennes qui aient une date certaine."

As it would fill a volume fully to illustrate the present collection, con-
sisting of 209 leaves, in which the enunciata and the positiones only are
written in large characters, all the remaining and largest portion (explana-
tions, demonstrations, glosses, &c.) being in the most minute but fine
characters, we must be satisfied with pointing out only a few things.

This manuscript has in front an analytical index in the autograph of
the celebrated Dr. David Gregory, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford
during the seventeenth century. In this paper, Dr. Gregory remarks that
the Euclid is arranged quite differently from the editions, and that " the
demonstrations are not what Euclid or Theo wrote." At the end of
Euclid's Geometry, we find the following colophon :

" Explicit liber Euclidis phi de arte geometrica continens cccclxv ppita et ppones,
et xi porismata preter axiomata singulis libris premissa ppoita quidem infinitivis
ppositiones indicativis explicans Deo gratias."

Respecting the " Algorismus Jordani," the heading of which, in this
manuscript, is " Incipit demonstratio magistri Iordani de Algorismo,"
although Dr. Gregory says, in his index, that it is the " same with jor-
danus, which is printed," we are bound to state that it is entirely different
from the Arithmetica Jordani, which was printed at Paris in 1496, in a
collection mentioned under that year by Professor De Morgan, in his
Arithmetical Boohs, (p. 10). The work of Jordanus, contained in the
present manuscript, begins with " Numeroruin (this word was afterwards
altered into Nunieri) sunt ix, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, et est prima unitatis,"
&c, instead of, as in the edition, beginning with " Unitas est rei per se dis-
cretio," the whole printed work being quite different from the manuscript.
The " Demonstratio de Minuciis," which, in the manuscript, is like the
concluding portion of the " Algorismus Jordani," is not to be found in the
edition. An important feature (occurring also in several of the other works
contained in the same volume), is, that this Algorismus Jordani exhibits,

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 147

in this manuscript many numerical figures of a peculiar form, but written
according to the Arabic system. Perhaps the treatise inserted in this
manuscript, under the name of Jordanus, who was supposed to belong to
the thirteenth century, is not his work ; or even, perhaps, the first portion
of this manuscript may have been written some years after the Alfraganus,
with the date of 1170 at the end, which forms a distinct work, and perhaps
was written before the other treatises contained in the volume. M. Chasles,
hi his Ajpercu (p. 464) mentions an "Algorismus J ordain," still existing in a
manuscript, and quite different from the edition of 1496. Is it not the
same work contained in the present manuscript? Besides Jordanus
Nemorarius, there was a Jordanus Philotechnus, and a Jordanus de Alemania,
who both wrote on Algorismus and Arithmetic. Respecting them see
Fabricius, (Bibl. lat. med. vol. IV. p. 176) and Montfaucon (Bibl. Biblioih.
vol. I, p. 427 and 518.) As it will be shown by the facsimile the arithmetical
figures used in this manuscript are not at all uniform, for they are, at every
page, mixed with the ancient Roman alphabetical numerals, as is always
the case in the most ancient manuscript in which they were used, and not
only does the form of the new figures differ considerably from one page to
another, but by often making a wrong use of them and mistaking one for
another, the writer clearly shows that he has used a thing which was
quite new and unfamiliar to him. Several of these figures agree in their shape
with those the fac- simile of which was given by Montucla {Hist, des Math.
vol. I. pt. XI.) but some (the 2 for instance) are quite different. The figure
of the o (cipher) is sometimes like that which we use now, and sometimes
also of that peculiar shape which we find in the Archceologia (vol. X.
p. 373) as used formerly in England also for the number 10. A curious fact
is that while this manuscript appears to us so interesting on account of its
rudeness, and as affording so early and imperfect a specimen of modern
arithmetic, it was considered for that very reason almost useless by Gregory,
as appears from his Index placed at the beginning of the volume.

The work of Gerardus de Brussel seems quite unknown, and is very
important, as it appeared also to Dr. Gregory, who, speaking of it in his
index, says:

" The next is Liber Magistri de Brussel de Motu. It contains three books in seven
leaves. In the first, there are fonr propositions; in the second, five; in the third,
four. This never was printed that I know. It does not handle motion in the
present acceptance of the word, it only shows, that in the rotation of Lines and
Plain Figures about an immoveable Axis whereby surfaces and solids are generated,
there is sometimes equal motion in different generations, and sometimes more in one
than another. These are some initial small instances of the proposition : Tantum
movetur Figura quantum ejus centrum gravitatis."

The " Liber de quadratura circuli," is a portion of the work of Archi-
medes, "De circuli Dimensione," but with great variations. The work of
" Johannis de Tinennie," remained unknown to all the authors we have
been able to peruse. Evidently the author attempted in it to apply to the
sphere and cylinder the methods and propositions explained by Archimedes
in his " De Circuli dimensione." This original attempt at so early a period,
is worthy of great attention. At the end the author says of his own work:
u Ancora sit Archimenides." (sic.)

The "Liber de Speris," and the "Almagestum,"are certainly taken, the
first from Theodosius, the second from Ptolemy, but with such variations
as to make them totally different works ; and the commentaries added to
these (as well as to the other works contained in this volume) seem quite
unknown. The Euclidis Data are exceedingly scarce in manuscripts,
none being mentioned in the Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum by Montfaucon,
or in several catalogues of the most splendid libraries. They are also very
important; and so they were considered by Dr. Gregory, who, in his Index
alludes to them as " the most valuable of the u-hole." As the editor of the
celebrated folio edition of Euclid, printed at Oxford in 1703, he must be
considered a most competent judge on the subject. In our opinion, ilm
manuscript is for the History of Science almost invaluable, for in it we find
not only the modern arithmetical system and figures used at an earlier

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148 THE LIBBI MANUSCRIPTS.

period than in any other with a date hitherto known; hut also as containing,
first, such a number of translations, or rather paraphrases with unknown
glosses ; and last, not least, even works also hitherto unknown by Jordanus,
Gerardus de Brussel, and Joh. de Tinennie, on the Mathematical Sciences,
written undoubtedly in England, and full of tine diagrams, with some curious
drawings and many old annotations (some defaced so as to make this volume
almost a palimpsest). This is a most clear proof of the great progress
made in the study of Mathematics by England at a period in which it has
been almost generally believed on the Continent that the sciences had
not penetrated so far towards the North. Wood (Hist. vol. I, p. 289)
speaks of a small Almagestum written by Nicholas de Monteforte, but we
do not know if that work has any connection with the works of a similar
kind contained in the present manuscript, or in the manuscript No. 483
in this Catalogue. See also Nos. 82, 349, 780, &c. in the present Catalogue.
(See facsimile.)

GGQ Matthjei (S.) Evangelium glosatum — Glos2e in Epistolam Pauli ad
Ebraeos — Seneca de Paupertate et de fortuitorum bonoruin Bemediis
— Symmacht Epistol^e yabitE — Tractatus de Trinitate — De
tribus Speciebus Ignis — Salomonis Liber Ecclesiastes glosatus (et
alia) 4to. Sjec. xii. on yellum

A very interesting collection written by several English Scribes, some portions
being probably not quite so early, and containing also other small tracts.
It is well known that the works here attributed to Seneca are spurious, and
like several others, were written in all probability, by Archbishop Martinus,
who lived in the Vlth century. Manuscripts of the Epistolae of Symmachus
are as scarce as they are important for the history of Theodoric. This
manuscript appears to have belonged formerly to Woburn Abbey, then
possessing a tine collection of valuable manuscripts. Before the Ecclesiastes
we find the two following notes of the XII-XHIth century, both which
show the liberality of that monastery in lending manuscripts :

" Nepos abbatis, qui est persona de Barnete (the Parson of Barnet) habet
Priscianum magnum et summam Prisciani magistri Petri Helise, et commentum
Aristotelis, et quasdam glosas super Dialecticam, et unam partem Elenchorum, et
Boetium, et Ovidium magnum."

" Apud Woburne Augustinus de Confessionibus."

667 Matthjsi (Bernardi) Carmina 4to. S^:c. xvii. on paper

Unpublished Poems in the autograph of the author. A duplicate of the
" Elegia seu Martyrium Gulielmi Harti AnglV (one of the priests executed
for treason in the reign of Queen Elizabeth), is signed " B. Matt. E. C.

feciV"

688 Matjrocordati (Nicolai, "Voivodse," nee non Alexandri patris ejus)
Epistolae, Grsece, calf 4>to. S.ec. xviii. on paper

A valuable manuscript, entirely prepared for publication. Fabricius, who quotes
the celebrated work de Officiis of the Voivoda Maurocordatus, was not aware
of the existence of the present work which seems totally unknown. Both
father and son are celebrated for the purity and beauty of their style.

669 Mazzartni ( Cardinal e Giulio) Testamento, Lettere, Documenti e Morte

dell Eminent™0- Sigre- Card. G-. Mazzarini folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper

670 Mazzarini (Cardinale Giulio) Vita folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

A work full of curious information relating to the Coyote di Moma, etc.

671 MedicinvE Tractatus plures editi et compositi per diversos Medicos,

. scilicet : Arnalbi be Villa nova, Libellus de Begimine Sanitatis —
Alius Tractatus utilis et brevior de Begimine Sanitatis licet sit
apocrifus — Barnard be Biatinis be Begio Libellus de conser-
vanda Sanitate et Consilium ad Arenulam— Thomje Tractatus de
Consilio ad Arenulas et de Venenis — Jacobi (Magistri) Tractatus

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 149

do Gutta, &c. — Albertt Boniensis (Magistri) de Emoroidis, &c—
Kecepta varia (scripta a.d. mcccclxxx.)

8VO. SjEC. XV. PARTLY ON YELLUM AND PARTLY ON PAPER

This manuscript has on the first leaf the autograph of the celebrated L. Gregorius
Gyraldus, who says that he received it as a present from the famous Fal-
loppius. Barnabas de Riatinis is not mentioned by Tiraboschi. Respecting
Medicina see also Nos. 12, 154, 279,280, 396, 397, 532, 549, 609, 658, 659,
676-678, 701, 863, 886, 974, 1000, in the present Catalogue.

072 Medicis. Anecdotes de Elorence ou l'Histoire secrette de la Maison
de Medicis, calf 4<to. S^ec. xvii. on paper

Replete with most entertaining anecdotes. On the last leaf is written "J'ap-
partiens a Mademoiselle de St. Aubert^

673 Melli (Angelo Maria, " Cittadino Reggiano") Historia della Citta di
Reggio Lepido (o Reggio di Modena) folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

A transcript of the original manuscript preserved at Reggio. At the end there are
several important documents of the Xlth, Xllth, and XIHth centuries,
relating to the history of Reggio and its most illustrious families, copied
about 1750. We could not rind any mention of this work either in the
" Archivio Storico Italiano," or in the " Catalogo dei Manoscritti del
Marchese Gino Capponi." In his Biblioteca Modenese, (vol. Ill, p. 199,)
Tiraboschi speaks of a Chronicle of Reggio, written by Pietro Melli; is it
the same work, the christian name only being altered by mistake ?

(574 Menicolei (Giuseppe) Breve Esposizione della Dottrina

4<to. SiEc. xviii. on paper

075 Mercier Abbe de Saint-Leger (Barthelemi) Anecdotes Litteraires, et

Notices Bibliographiques des Livres rares, des Cartulaires, &c.

4ito. S,ec. xviii. on paper

A valuable collection consisting of more than 100 pages of memoranda respect-
ing rare books, manuscripts, and authors, entirely in the autograph of the
Abbe de St. Le"ger, one of the most learned bibliographers that ever
existed, with a note, also in his handwriting, addressed to the Abbe Brotier
inclosing a copy of an ancient inscription found at Lyons. Some of the
literary anecdotes are amusing and would be found worthy of publication
in the " Gentleman's Magazine1' or " Notes and Queries."

076 Mesu^e Grabadin (Joannis Nazareni Eilii) Canones Universales (cum

expositione Mondini) de Simplicibus ; de Electuariis ; de Medicinis
solutinis ; de Loch; de Syrupis et Robus; de Decoctionibus et
Infusionibus ; de Trociscis de Sussuf et Pulveribus ; de Pillulis ; de
TJnguentis et Emplastris, et de Oleis. Item ejusdem Medicince par-
ticulares. Omnia cum Expositione Christofori Georgii de Honestis
Florentini (nee non additiouibus Petri de Abano ac Erancisci de
Pedemontium) — Incipit Liber Servitoris Liber xxvui. Bulchasin
Benaberacerin translatus a Simone Januensi, interprete Abraham
Judeo Tortuosiensi — Saladini i>e Esctjlo Compendium Aroma-
tariorum — Nicolai Antidotarium cum expositionibus et glosis
Ioann. de Sancto Amando, Platearii, &c.

royal folio. S^ec. xv. on vellum

Written on 248 leaves of beautiful vellum (the first eight deficient) with finely
illuminated capitals and borders. This large manuscript was collected
from most important works on physic and its collateral sciences written
either by Arabian authors or by Italian physicians during the Xllth,
Xlllth, and XlVth Centuries. According to Tiraboschi some of the
works contained in this volume seem to have been only partially printed,
although for the history of medical science and natural history they are

150 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

of considerable interest. In the title of the Liber Servitoris we find an
instance of the curious kind of literary partnership often used at that time
between a learned Jew and a Christian in translating works from the
Arabic. Respecting the Antidotarium Nicolai see De Renzi (Collect. Salem.
vol. I, p. 217).

677 Mestje (Johannis) Opera Medica folio. Smc. xv. (1447) on paper

With the following colophon : " Francisci de Artariis de Placentia Artium Doc-
toris et Medicinal est Liber iste qui vacatur Addiciones Mesne compilatus per
Franciscum de Pede de Montibus scriptus per Sebastianum de Moris de Pla-
centia ipsi M. Francisco suprascripto 1447 die XV Junii ;" in which the
figure of the two numbers 4 is exactly like the present figure of the 9.

678 Mestje Antidotarium — Nicolai (Salernitani) Antidotarium — Johan-

nucii Epistola Galieno— Segreti e Ricette diverse (Latine et
Italiee) 4to. Sjec. xiv-xv. on paper

This interesting manuscript belonged to Fabritio and Alessandro Padovani (the
first was the author of a learned treatise de Ventis, printed at Bologna, 1601,
in folio) who no doubt were collectors of manuscripts three centuries ago, as
many of those described in this Catalogue belonged to them. This volume
was in a great part at least written by Andreuccio de Magon, whose
name appears both at the end of Mesue and Nicholaus. The Segreti
are curious, as they not only relate to medical prescriptions, but also to art
and manufactures. Andreuccio was very probably a physician and a poet,
as we have here some little poems in his handwriting. For instance, see
a humorous sonnet on pills of which he complains he has taken a great
number without any effect. (See also No. 398 in the present Catalogue.)

679 Metaphysica et Physica, R. P. T. B. Svo. Sjec. xvii. (1683) on paper

Probably by a Professor at the English College of Jesuits at Liege, as it came
from the Collection of Sir Thomas Gerard, Bart, (whose family was con-
nected with the Jesuits). It is a curious work, replete with interesting
facts relating to the History of Science, having diagrams representing the
barometer, &c.

680 Michaelis (S.) de Mediolano, " Ord. Min. de Observantia," Quadra-

gesimale de Eide et Articulis Eidei

4itO. SiEC. XV. PARTLY ON VELLUM AND PARTLY ON PAPER

Written very closely in a neat Italian hand, having a richly-illuminated border
on the first page, and a miniature portrait of the author as the initial letter.
From the manuscript corrections and additions throughout, there is every
reason to believe that this work is in the cmtograph of the author, who,
during his life, (he died in 1490) was one of the most powerful preachers,
and who very probably was the same writer and saint as the one known
under the name of St. Michael de Carcano. The present work, De Fide,
quoted in the Argelati Bibliotheca from manuscripts, was never printed,
and it seems that when Argelati published his large work, this manuscript
was already supposed to be lost. In every respect this volume is a great
curiosity, both to Milanese and Catholic collectors.

681 Michaud (M.) Memoire sur 1'Emploi des Eorcats aux Ouvrages

publics folio. S^:c. xviii. on paper

This interesting Paper appears to have been drawn up for the use of Mr. Pitt,
and is dated, Nice, 12 May, 1784.

682 Minei (R. P. Alfonzo) Officio de la Noveiia di S. Maria Yergine

Immacolata ed affetuosissime Riverenze per ogni Giorno con un
Ave Maria per ogni Salutazione Svo. Sjec. xvii. on paper

683 Mibacula SANCTiE Dei Genitricis Marine — Jitliani, " Episcopi

Toletani," Psognostica euturi Sjeculi — Amphilqchius Iconii
Episcopus de Vita et Miraculis S. Basilii — Leontii, " Episcopi
Neapoleos Ciprorum Insula?," Enarkatio de Vita S. Patkis

THE LIBPI MANUSCRIPTS. 151

Johannis Eleemoslnarii Archiepiscopi Alexandria — De XV

SlGNIS XV DlERUM PRECEDENTIUM DlEM JtTDICII De PENI-

TENTIA ItEGIS SaLOMONIS OrDO MlSSJE PRiECEPTA LEGIS

Remigii, "Autisioderensis Episcopi," Expositio brevis de Ordine
Missa, morocco, gilt edges folio. SiEC. xi. on yellttm

Apparently written by an Anglo-Saxon Scribe, with capitals illuminated in
colours, the first being a representation of the Madonna and Child. Many
of the Legends are highly amusing, and have furnished to Poets subjects
for their Lais and Fabliaux. Several of the very curious Stories contained
in the Miracula were afterwards translated and embodied in the Contes
Devots, so celebrated during the middle ages, but which should more
properly have been called Contes Ubertins. Some are in verse, and several
relate to England (which, strengthens the supposition of the manuscript
having been written in England), as it appears from the following beginning
of one of them:

Asserunt antiqui relatores britanniam dictam maiorcm, ad distantiam minoris, quse
partes incolit occidentis, fere pre omnibus terris opulentam, omnibus diviciis refertam,
ac nobilitatam urbibus castellis et vicis et ut prediximus nulla est regio similis in
diviciis."

It is very interesting to trace back to the eleventh century and to a Latin
origin, as is often the case in other fictions of the middle ages, those celebrated
Miracula, which were translated into French verse by Gautier de Coinsy
and other poets of the thirteenth century. The whole of the tracts
contained in this volume are very curious, but they do not seem to have
been all' written by the same scribe. At the end there is an old
inscription, defaced at the beginning, and showing that the manuscript was
offered to some church, with an imprecative formula, which bears another
testimonial to its antiquity, " si quis eum abstulerit iram dei incurrat et sit
anathema hie et in eternum fiat fiat." In this volume, which has been errone-
ously lettered on the back by the bookbinder, Sallustius, the whole of the
numerical figures are written according to the ancient Poman alphabetical
system. See also Nos. 58 and 283 in the present Catalogue. {See facsimile.)

684 Mirandolano (Pico) Kabala osia Gioco Algebrico cohordinato nell'
Anno 1697 — Francesco Simojst Guardia dal Corpo di S. A. 11.
D". F'ilipo Infante di Spagna dell' Anno 1758 fecit

4ito. (1758) on paper

A most singular work, which gives the explanation of the Pyramid, and other
numerical figures, so often named by Casanova in his Memoirs, and so
celebrated in Casrliostro's time.

vo*

685 Mira.ndtjla. Infrascripta sunt Statuta et Ordinamenta Datiorum
Terrse Mirandulse folio. Sjec. xv. on vellum

With numerous additions, bringing them down to 1528, in a more recent hand.
Some of these Statuta are very singular, and well illustrate the manners of
the Italians at that time. In one of these municipal laws, we read : —

" Quod nullns bospes vel tabernarius bibet pro familia sua vinum illius colons
cujus erit illud qnod vendet ad minutum."

Amongst other very curious things in these Statuta, a most important
law, which does great credit to the inhabitants of Mirandula, is contained in
the following Rubric :

" Item statutum et ordinatum est quod potestas nullo modo possit ponere aliquem
ad torturam cum squasso," &c.

Every body who is a little acquainted with the abominable, arbitrary, and
cruel way in which every kind of torture was inflicted at that time, and
even much later, in every part of Europe, will be glad to find a check
A\as given to the practice, or at least to the Tortura cum squasso, by the
" Statuta Miranduke."

152 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

686 Misbah-al-Madhi, or the Lamp of past Times, in Arabic, (containing

Historical Anecdotes and Memoirs of the Abbasides, the Khalifs of
Bagdad, amongst whom is Harun- Al-Rashid, whose name is so familiar
to readers of the " Arabian JNights ")

4to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

A most interesting unpublished work, written in the time of Mostadhi-
bi-amr-illah-Bin-Mostanjid-Billah, the 33rd Khalif, who succeeded his
father in the year 566 of the Hegira (1170 A.D.) This transcript was copied
from the manuscript, written by the author himself, in the year 606 of the
Hegira (A.D. 1209).

687 Miss a. Tractatus de Defectibus et comitantibus et subsequentibus

quibus Celebrans dicitnr indigne celebrare nisi fiat omnibus providere,
Italics 8vo. S^:c. xv. on paper

We do not find any mention of this ancient Italian work in bibliographers. A
similar work in Latin has been often printed.

688 Mis sale Komanum seu Pontieicale (cum Notis Musicis)

folio. Smc. xiv. ON VELLUM

This splendid specimen of early English art, written on the purest vellum, in
red and black fine large characters, is adorned with 8 Miniatures and
280 Capital Letters, richly illuminated in gold and colours,
often extending the whole length of the page to form borders. These
capitals are highly ornamental, and exhibit in their flourishes human heads,
birds, beasts, fish, nondescripts, grotesques, and flowers. In one of the
borders the hunting of the hare, and in another, a boy on stilts, are intro-
duced. Other subjects represent playing on the fiddle, blowing the horn,
a king with his crown on, a' monk saying mass, a cardinal, Ecce Homo,
&c. &c. At the end, in a much more modern hand, are the Creed and
various Services, including the Oratio Sixti IV, with the date of 1475. In
every respect, as well for the fineness of the illumination, as for the state of
preservation, this manuscript is most interesting to the English collector.

689 Miscellanea. Yaticinia antiqua metrica per Georgium Typhernam

et alios (ad annum 1490) scripta per H. Mazetum, Sjsc. xv. — Bovio
(Alfonso) Sonetto in Lode di D. Antonio CarafFa e un Capitolo in
Onore del Papa Paolo IV, autograph of these poems, ivhich were
published by Guasco, Sjec. xvi. — Bovio (Alessandro) Hime, auto-
graph, 8jec. xvi. — Guasco (Giovane) Poesie — Poesie diverse Auto-
grafe, S^ec. xvi. — Perinelli (Francesco) Catena d'Oro d'Anella
lxxxv figurati ne Vescovi di Eerrara, 1655 — Casari (Domenico
Maria) La Verita confidata, 1753 — Dialogo fra Abram e Baccus
(Idioma Ebraicd) SvEC. xviii. — Canzone sopra la Eede, Speranza e
Carita, SiEC. xvii. — Petrarca (E.) Cento Sonetti tradotti in Versi
Latini da Giuseppe Bonaccioli, 1736 — Borsetti (Dottor Eerrante
Eerranti) Poetico Riflesso circa il prender Moglie, Ferrara, 1719 —
Pythagorica Vaticinia Algebrica, a very curious ancient work on
Fortune-telling, S^ec. xviii. — Petri de Abano HeptameroD sen Ele-
menta Magica, 1745 — Clavis Cabalistica sive multiplex Clavium
harum Beductio in unicam methodum et Numerica Besponsa, &mc.
xviii. — Cabbala osia Scienza intellettiva, a complete Fortune-teller,
chiefly in verse, 1750 — Magalotti (Conte Lorenzo) La Madre Selva
Scherzo Pastorale, Sjec xviii.

in 1 vol. 4ito. S^EC. xv., xvi.. xvii, et xviii. on paper

This interesting collection contains many autograph poems by the two Bovios
and other celebrated poets of the XVIth and XVIlth century, the most
illustrious of all being the great Torquato Tasso, in whose handwriting
(according to the opinions of the best connoisseurs) are the corrections of

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 153

the Canzone sopra lafede, speranza e Carita. The Catene cCoro by Perinelii
contains the ecclesiastical history of Ferrara from the Vth century. The
Dlalogo is a poem written in the Italian-Jewish dialect which is almost
unknown. The translation of Petrarch into Latin by Bonaccioli was
unknown to Marsand. The Heptameron was published with the works of
Cornelius Agrippa, and the other works (chiefly in Italian) on the Cabbala
or fortune-telling are extremely scarce as they were severely proscribed by
the Roman church. (See facsimile).

690 Mombricti (Bonini, " Poetse Mediolanensis ") de Vita B. Hieronymi

Carmen ad Paolum II, Pontificem Maximum 4to. Smc. xv. oisr paper

Montfaucon in his Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum (vol. I. p. 110), mentions this
metrical Life of St. Jerome, as existing amongst the manuscripts of the
Vatican. This Boninus Mombricius is the same author who published
at Milan about 1479 the Vitce Sanctorum in two folio volumes.

691 Mokeglia (Gr. A.) il Bitorno d'Ulisse, Festa Drammatica

folio. S^ec. xvii. oisr paper
With an autograph heading by the author, stating that this work had been
ordered from Dr. Moneglia by the Grand Duchess Louisa di Toscana.

692 Mongolensia collecta a T. Bayero folio. Smc. xviii. oisr paper

A collection of valuable documents respecting the Mongol and Thibet Lan-
guages, Literature and History, in the autograph of the celebrated
T. Bayer, author of the " Museum Sinicum." At the end is a long Poem
entitled " Ghesser Khan.'"

693 Monteort (Alexandre de, " Luxembourgeois ") L'CEconomie des

Mouches a Miel composee a l'Utilite de la Maison Champestre

folio. S,ec. xvii. on paper

This learned Treatise on Bees is apparently in the author's autograph and
unpublished.

694 Mottetti. Quadragesimale in Musica sive Hymnorum Liber (Latine

et Italice) small 4sto. Smc. xiv-xv. on vellum

Very elegantly written in an Italian hand, with musical notes. Besides
Latin Hymns, which are arranged for two, three and four Voices, this
manuscript contains, in the Italian language, Pescator pensa al tuo signor;
Regina de o del cor mio ; Benedetto ne sia lo zorno ; Convertime o Signore ;
Piangete Christiani el dolore di Maria ; Anima pe o peregrina ; Amor, amor,
Jesu ; 0 Jesu dolce ; Cum desiderio io vi vo cerchando ; Piangi dolente ;
Jesu facio lamento ; Quando signor Jesu sero ; Memento mei o sacra virgo
pia, memento mei che non sia ; Jesu dolce mio sposo ; L'Oration e sempre
bona ; Questa aspra penitentia ; Non tardate peccatori andative a confessar ;
A Maria fonte d'amor ; Poi che ch' hebi nel cor ; Patientia ognun me dice ;
Io sto male ; Per quella croce ; &c. Early Italian musical manuscripts,
'written upon vellum, are exceedingly scarce. In this volume, consisting of
141 leaves of pure vellum, there is also (f. 30-31), a great curiosity, namely,
a Mottetto, partly written in Latin and partly in Italian. From an inspec-
tion of this manuscript, it appears that at that time, for the sake of euphony,
the singers used even to change the vowels ; for instance, instead of
singing de e el cor mio, as they should do actually, they sang deooo I, which
is very singular.

695 Muhammad. History of the Prophet Muhammad and his Family,

Companions, Disciples, &c. in Persian folio. S^ec. xvii. oisr paper

In the Nasta'lik character, but defective at the beginning and end ; this is perhaps
the Rauzat-al-Akbab of " 1Atta Allah;'1'' which was originally written and
dedicated to 'All Shah, a.d. 1494. (See Haji Khalfa, vol. Ill, p. 495.)

696 Muhammad Batz Banji, the " Jawahir-al-Thammiyah," or Description

of the Characteristics and Beauties of Medina, in Arabic, written
Anno Hegirre 1000 (a.d. 1591) 4>(o. S^;c. xvi. on Oriental paper
A valuable historical manuscript, in prose and verse.

154 THE LIBRI MANUSCBIPTS.

697 Muhammad Ibn Muhammad, Ibn 'Abdal-Wahab, " Nuzhat-al-

Anam ii Mahasin al-Sham." A Description of the Beauties of the
Kingdom of Sham (Syria), the History of the Prophets and Saints
of that Country, and of what is to happen there up to the day of
Judgment, as set forth by the Prophets, in Arabic, in Naskh cha-
racter, in Prose and Verse, copied Anno Hegirae 1119 (a.d. 1706)
— Mar'ai Ibn Tusuf al-Hanbali, the " Nuzhat-al-JN'azrin," or Ac-
count of Egypt ; the Khalifs, their Administration ; the Descen-
dants of Muhammad ; the Learned Men ; the Sovereigns of Egypt,
to the reign of Muhammad Pasha, who reigned in the year of the
Hegira 1031 (a.d. 1621) ; copied Anno Hegira? 1140 (a.d. 1727)

Ho. Sjbc. xviii. ON PAPER
Both important.

698 Muhammad Ibn-al-Hussain-il-Kurkhi, " Kitab-al-Kafi fi 'Ilm-al-

Hissab,"&c. a Treatise on Arithmetic and Geometry, Land Surveying,
&c. in Arabic 4<to. Sjec. xviii. on glazed paper

A most valuable and scarce Arabic work ; beautifully written in the Naskh
character.

699 Muhammad Sharif, or Mu'tamad Khan, the " Ikbal Namah-i- Jahan-

giri," A History of the Reign of Jehangir, in Persian, written at
Kashmir in the year 1029 of the Hegira (a.d. 16] 9)
Oriental binding folio. S^ec. xvii. on paper

This valuable manuscript was copied Anno Hegira? 1100 (a.d. 1688). Jehangir,
King of Delhi, was the grandfather of the celebrated Aurangzlb.

700 Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Tusuf, the " Jami'-al-Fawald,"

or Treasury of Utility, being a Collection of Recipes for the Cure of
all sorts of Diseases " incident to Men and Women, young and old,"
in Persian 4<to. S^ic. xvii. on paper

A curious work, copied by 'Abd-al-Karlm, Anno Hegira? 1089 (a.d. 1677).

701 Mulla Salih Eeeendi, the " Ghayat-al-Itkan fi-Tadbir Badan-al-

Insan," A voluminous Medical and Chemical work, in Arabic

folio. S.ec. xvii. on paper
An important work, taken from numerous Greek and Latin authors, quoted by
the author, and amongst whom Galen is one of the most conspicuous. The
last anonymous author of this compilation says that the work was com-
menced by Mulla Salih Effendi, who died without finishing it, and that
then it was continued by Mulla Yahya Effendi, who being appointed Cadi of
Home (Constantinople, according to most of the Orientals, but according to
D'Herbelot, the netv Antioch, built by Nuslnrwan,) had no time to complete
it, and therefore " he entrusted it to me the Fakir (the poor, the humble,
&c)." In all probability this work, of which we have found no mention
whatever, would increase our information relating to the amount of Greek
and Latin Science which had penetrated amongst the Mohammecjans, and it
would be interesting to compare it with the well known works of Abulcasis,
Ibn Sina, &c, as well as other Arabic works recently reviewed hi the
Journal Asiatique by M. Mullet, Dr. Sanguinetti, and other Orientalists.
One of the most curious chapters contained in the present manuscript
relates to the various symptoms and effects of the biting of venemous
animals, such as snakes, scorpions, &c. &c. We conld not lind any mention
of this work in the learned book of M. Wenrich, on the translations of
Greek authors into Arabic.

702 Muris (Joannis de) Theorica Proportionum Musicalium — Canones

Minutiarum cum Eiguris folio. SvEC. xiv-xv. on vellum

John de Muris was, according to Pitseus, an Englishman, and probably proud of
his Norman descent, for at the end of the Theorica, he describes himself in
this manuscript as, " de Natione Normanniai oriundus" which is important

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as so many discussions have taken place about the origin of this celebrated
man. He flourished in the fourteenth century, and was a Doctor of the Sor-
bonne. That he was still living in 1345 is well known, but, according to
M. Fetis, the time of his death is uncertain. In this valuable manuscript
Arabic numerals are employed throughout. The manuscripts of J. de Muris
are very rare, one only (i)e arithmetica) being mentioned by Haenel. A single
manuscript of the " Theorica Proportionum Musicalium," is quoted by the
learned Si. Fetis. From what we see in the excellent Histoire de VHar-
monie (p. 215), by M. De Coussemaker, this work formed perhaps the
third book of the great Speculum by the same author. The Canones Minu-
tiarum are an interesting treatise on fractions, but we are unable to ascertain
whether this was also a production of John de Muris, who wrote an Epistola
de numerorum fractionibus, or a Tractatus canonum ?ninutiarum, quoted by
M. Fetis as being the same work, but which is certainly not the Canones
contained in this manuscript, as the " Catalogus Bibliothecse Regise Parisi-
ensis" says, that the Epistola quoted by M. Fetis is in verse and addressed
to Philip de Vitry, while the present work is in prose. In both those works
(containing diagrams and musical figures) Arabic numerals are continually
used. The name of Muris as an arithmetician, had not been noticed by
Montucla and M. Chasles, but did not escape the attention of Mr. De Morgan ;
the abridgment however of Boethius by J. de Muris quoted by Mr.de Morgan,
has no connexion whatever with the present work, which seems both unpub-
lished and unknown, and which deserves the attention of savants. It begins
with "Modum representationis vulgarium et physicarum propone." Without
knowing its author we cannot ascertain if the work was written previous
to the Algorithmus de minuciis physicis (sexagesimal fractions), by John
de Gmunden who, according to Lalande, lived about 1400, (See also No.
569 in the present Catalogue), but whose work on the subject was only
published in 1515.

703 Musica. Circa Noticiam Musicae Scientiae queritur primo quid sit

Musica et secundo unde dicatur Mo. SvEC. xv. on paper

The musical notes are written on five staves for the edification of the learner
who, according to the author, must be considered " Bestia non Cantor qui
non canit arte sed ii-su." At the end is another Treatise on Music, " seu
Libellus continens aliqua brevia documenta ad artem cantandi," with Latin
songs and musical notes, and having a drawing of the old musical hand.

704 Musica. De Musica per me Sebastianum Fabium de Cuchach, written

circa 1460, with music of five staves, very curious

4itO. &JEC. XV. ON PAPER

705 Music. Instrumentalischer Bettlermantl (Instructions for Thirty

Musical Instruments, in German) Collectore A. S. <£.
vellum 4ito. StEC. xvii-xviii. oisr paper

A very valuable manuscript, consisting of 304 pages, with numerous coloured
drawings of the musical instruments (including an ancient piano), and with
tunes. It contains also two Latin treatises ; one, in ten books, called
" Regular Simpliciores pro componenda musica," having at end " Finis huius
artis p. 16. Bapt. Chiod." a name unknown to Fetis, and therefore unpub-
lished. The other is called " Aliud componendi modus." Besides a transcript
of the tract on Arithmetic as applied to music, by Henry Grammatell (said to
have been printed at Frankfort -on-the Maine in 1572, and which must be very
rare as it is not quoted in the truly invaluable work on Arithmetical books
by Professor De Morgan) there is a great variety of other small works in
the volume, written about 1720, but evidently containing writings of much
earlier authors, including " Gumpelnhaimer, J. B. Besardi, Fabritio,
C. Milanuzio, L. Viadana, Glareanus, J. Lancius," and others. The author,
(A. S.) in some German verses prefixed, acknowledges that he has begged,
borrowed, or stolen, wherever he could, to increase the value of his book.
Concerning Music see also Nos. 507, 543, 595-597, 760. 780, 844, 840,
892, 1053, 1103, 1114-1117, in the present Catalogue.

156 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

700 Mustafa Ibn Ahmad Hallak, tlie "Tarikh Nih-iyat-al-Talab bi-
Mawaki'al-Sham," A Historv of Sham (Syria) from Anno Hegirae
1154 to 1195 (a.d. 1740 to 1780) in Arabic

folio. S.ec. xviii. ON paper

707 Musnier (Joannis Alcidii, " Medici et Philosophi Lotharingi") Miscel-
laneorum Liber unus Anno 1636 4<to. S^:c. xvii. (1636-41) on paper

A stout volume of 950 pages, in the Author's Autograph, evidently intended
for the press, with an index of the contents, and a portrait of the
author, aged 43 (a drawing) prefixed. The following slight view of the
Treatises contained will afford some notion of this interesting manuscript.
De Grammatica ; Nomina selectiora et Adagia, ; de Linguis (especially de
Lingua Hetrusca) ; de Poetica A crosticlia; de Rhetorica ; Philosophia Mo-
ralis ; Orationes ; de Sympathia et Antipathia Rerum ; de Imaginatione ; de
Tempore ejusque Partibus; de Arte Divinatoria; de Auguriis et Auspiciis;
de Astronomia ; de Geographicis quibusdam ; de Pythagora ; de Nwneris;
de Musica et Musis ; de Rebus Divinis ; de Deo ; de Diis ; de Sectis
Philosophorum ; de Sectis Medicorum ; &c. &c.

Inserted (pp. 49-56) are engraved Polyglott Alphabets and " Elogia Dei-
parae." The Preface, in " Artem Oratoriam," is dated " Urbini Anno, 1636."
One of the Orations is in Italian, and though it was delivered by " Alessandro
Sentinelli in Urbino nella Cappella di S. Filippo Neri, 1637," the author
claims it as "da me composta." There is also a dramatic Predica della
Passione di N. S. Jesu Christo. At p. 205 is an Autograph Sonnet,
with the poet's signature, addressed to Giovanni Alcidis Monier Medico
Lorenese by " Giovanni Leone Sempronio Poeta laureato dottore in legge
d' Urbino," author of Boemondo, a poem thus praised by Quadrio : " Occupa
pero il primo luogo tra quelli delV infelice suo secolo" A Treatise de Grapho-
inantia is also in Italian. The Treatise de Chiromantia has drawings.
The work de Sectis Philosophorum et Medicorum, dated Placentise, 1641,
contains, under " de Secta Magica," a treatise de Magia. This work, illus-
trated with numerous scientific diagrams and plates, is a true cyclopaedia
of the state of learning, chiefly in Italy, during the seventeenth century;
and contains much valuable information which it would be difficult to find
elsewhere. Prefixed to each special treatise, there is a bibliography of the
subject.

70S MuwalI, the " Nazni-al-Durrar," or String of Pearls, containing Persian
Poems by MuwalI, consisting of Moral Tales and Religious Effusions,
dedicated to Shah Tahmasp, King of Persia, Anno Hegirae 936
(a.d. 1529) Svo. SiEC. xvi. on Oriental paper

Neatly written in the Nasta^lik character, with an illuminated title-page within
gilt borders. Never printed.

709 Mtstere. C'y commence la JNativite* de nostre Sir Jhesu Crist

Svo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

A transcript of this rare Mystery, containing several variations from the edition.

710 ISaninus de Marsiliis " Libro chiamato Roxaruin Odor Vitse, Roxaro

Odore de la Vita" Mo. 1440, on paper

An autograph manuscript with the following colophon: uEgo Naninus d' Marsiliis
propria manu scripsiet die XXII Junii MCCCCXL. expleiii." This curious
Italian work on Moral Ethics (as well as its Author) appears to be totally
unknown. The writer quotes Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Prudentius and the
Fathers. In illustrating "Inter dispares mores non cadit amicitia," he says,
" io me delectasse del studio e uno altro del giocho de lidadi (Dice)." At
the end there is an index "per abacho che rimanda al capitolo," with Arabic
numerical figures. On the last page a " Iohannes de Cantero de Almania "
(of Germany), who (in the XVth century) possessed this manuscript, has
written besides his name these two rather curious Germano-Italic verses.

" Homo in amarato .sans dinare."

" Prend una canestro e vate pickare."

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711 Napoleon I. Projet do Budjet pour les Depenses de 1810, Service

du Grand Maitre des Ceremonies et Depenses

folio. S.ec. xix. (1810) on paper

An official authenticated copy of the expenses incurred for the marriage and
coronation of the Emperor Napoleon I. In confirmation of the well known
fact that the Emperor Napoleon paid great attention to economy, we find here
that the whole of the expenses for the ceremony of his marriage with the daugh-
ter of the Emperor of Austria were less than 1G5,000 francs (about £6,600).

712 Napoli. Alcuni Particolari degui di memoria et di annotatione iquali

sono accaduti nella Citta et nel Regno di Napoli per il Tempo iche
D. Pietro di Toledo fu Vicere et per molti anni dopoi con i Tumulti
del Anno 1547; et la Ribellione del Principe di Salerno et altre cose
seguite 4fo. S.ec. xvi. on paper

This work written by a cotemporary author generally agrees with the Castaldo
(see No. 230 in the present Catalogue). But in the present manuscript
the text is older and more genuine, and offers many important various
readings, while the previous one (No. 230) contains some additional docu-
ments (see for instance the letter of the Emperor Charles V at the be-
ginning of the third book) which are not in the present. Written by an
eye-witness, this work, which relates the great insurrection of the Neapo-
litans against the attempt to introduce the Spanish Inquisition into their
city, is full of curious anecdotes, duels, murders, etc. It speaks for instance
of the Emperor Charles V. attending a masked ball, and being detected
and taken in by the Princess of Salerno.

713 Napoli. Summaria e breve Relatione de le Intrate de la Regia Corte

del Regno di Napoli, delli Pagamenti fiscali, delle Dohane (Custom
House) folio. S^ec. xvi. on paper

A fiscal document of considerable historical and statistical importance. The
numerous names mentioned therein render it also most interesting to
genealogists. For the history of trade this work, consisting of 216 leaves,
is also very interesting.

714 Napoli. Principum Neapolitanorum Conjurationis Anno mdcco. His-

toria folio. S^ec. xviii. on paper

We could not find any mention either of this work, or of the previous one, in the
works of Soria, Giustiniani, and Riccio.

715 Nappini (CanonicoBartolomeo) Opere Poetiche 4tto. StEC. xviii. on paper

Nappini, who died at Rome in 1717, upwards of 80 years of age, was a Member
of the Accademia degl' Infecondi, and because he preferred it to the rising
Arcadia, Crescimbeni was so indignant that he disdained to take notice of
him in his Storia. Tiraboschi, however, praises him, and speaking of his
verses says, " Sono in istil pedantesco, nel quale egli ha molta grazia efeli-
cita." This stile pedantesco is a very curious mixture of Latin and Italian.
A great portion of these poems being of the most free and satirical
description were never published.

716 NasIr-al-DTn Tusi (Muhammad bin-Hassan bin-Muhammad) " Zij-

Ilkhani," Astronomical ' llkhanite ' Tables (in Persian)
Oriental binding folio. Sjec. xiv. (1322) on Oriental paper

A most valuable manuscript. It is hardly necessary to mention, that
Nasir-al-Dm, born a.d. 1201, was perhaps the greatest philosopher and
astronomer of his age. Employed by Holagu, the grandson of Chinglz
Khan, to erect the great observatory of Megarah, he collected there
the most celebrated astronomers of Asia and Africa, and with their help
was able in a few years to construct these tables, which, although one of
the most important monuments of astronomy, still remain unpublished,
whilst other Oriental tables, probably of less importance, have found
learned editors and illustrators.

The " Zij-llkham," was presented to the son of Holagu, Anno Hegirse

158 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

669, (a.d. 1269), and the present manuscript was written Anno Hegirae 722
(only fifty-four years afterwards), as it appears from an Arabic note in a
cotemporary hand, written in red on the title (the third leaf of the
manuscript). This inscription says, that this manuscript was written in the
year of Hegirse " Isnan wa 'ishrln wa sitt miyah,1' which signifies six
hundred and twenty-two, but it is easy to see that an Arabic letter has
been erased in order to change seven into six, and thus make it appear
older, forgetting that by rendering it so old, the copy must actually have
been made before the work itself was written. This ancient volume,
which is beautifully written in red and black, with numerous tables, and
a fine ornament in gold and colours at the beginning, is one OF the most
important Oriental scientific manuscripts ever offered for
public sale.

717 Nativite. Cy commance la Nativite Nostre Sire Jhesucrist

Svo. S./EC. xviii. on paper,

A transcript of this very rare Mystery, with tracings of five ancient woodcuts,
and several philological annotations on the margins in the handwriting of
the learned bibliographer Herisson.

718 Navigation. Petit Livre, ou sont en suite les Principes de la Navi-

gation et un Forme de Carte qui demoutre le Cours des Marees par
toute l'Europe avec la Hose qui montre 1'heure du plain et basse
Mer, &c. " Eaict a Lisbone par Christofle Troadec du Conquet"

4to. SiEC. xvii. (1645) on vellum

A very curious Treatise on Navigation, with diagrams, and an illuminated map
of England, France, and Spain. It contains several chapters or small
tracts on the subject, the first in gold and colours, being : Moyen de trouver
le Nombre d'Or — II. Rose pour scavoir les Noms des Ventz — III. Rose
pour scavoir quel heure il est le Souleil — IV. Rose pour scavoir comment
et de combien le Souleil et la Lune se lougnet — V. Rose pour scavoir quel
Maree — VI. Rose pour scavoir de combien les aultres Marees — VII. Rose
pour scavoir 1'heure du coucher et lever de la Lune a perpetuette —
VIII. Rose pour scavoir combien de Lieues il faut courir en chaqun Erde-
vant pour ellever un Degre de Lattitude — IX. Rose pour scavoir la
Declineson de TEtoille du Nort — X. Carte des Costes de l'Europe (including
the Coasts of England, Scotland and, Ireland) — XI. Carte des Courses — .
XII. Table pour trouver la nouvelle Lune a perpetuitte — XIII. Pour
scavoir sans Ayde de Livre l'Epacte, " on which is painted a hand with the
maimer of calculating.'" The various drawings, maps, and tables of this
manuscript contain a collection of all the practical means used by navi-
gators about the middle of the seventeenth century. We have been unable
to find any mention of Chr. Troadec in any work relating to the History
of Geography that we have perused.

719 Newdorffer (Johann, R,echenmaister, 1531) Arithmetica, Germanice

vellum square Ylmo, S^c. xvi. on vellum

Probably composed for Sebald Hiibner in 1531, as at the end is the folloAving
autograph inscription : " Sebolt Hiibner ist diess puchlein im 1531 jor,"
with his monogram beneath. A subsequent possessor was " Jacob Week,
Anno 1537, in Lyon.1' The Arithmetica of Newdorffer is quoted only from
hearsay in the Index by Professor de Morgan, who, it seems, was unable
to see the work itself; a fact which is a sufficient proof of the rarity of the
book. This manuscript is nicely written, with capitals in gold.

720 Nicephorus Melissenus, " Crotoniates Episcopus," de Trinitate et alia

Opuscula ejusdem, Greece — Michaelis Epistola?, Greece — Qu.es-
tiones in tres Libros Aristotelis de Anima Latine — Tractatus de
Sacramento Eucharistia?, vellum Uo. S^ic. xvii. on paper

No manuscript of " Nicephorus de Trinitate " is to be found in the " Catalogus
Bibliothecse Regise Parisiensis."

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721 Nicodemi Evangelium — Atigttstinus (B.) de Vita Christiana —

Altercatio Ecclesia? et Synagogse — Alcuinus (Anglus) deVirtu-
tibus et Vitiis Uuidoni Comiti
in the original binding, with clasp square 8vo. Sjec. ix. on vellum

In every respect this manuscript, consisting of 273 pages, and written by
different scribes in the finest small Carlovingian characters, deserves a
special attention. Without alluding to the work of the celebrated
Alcuin, in a manuscript almost cotemporary with the author, the
appearance of the spurious Evangelium Nicodemi (which is at the
end of the volume), in a manuscript of the ninth century, is rather an
extraordinary fact, for even modem copies of this forged Gospel or Romance
are very scarce. Haenel only mentions two copies of the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries, and two more without any description, which shows
that they were of even less importance. In the great Medicean Library of
Florence there is not a single copy of this work, and we see from the
printed " Catalogus Bibliothecae Regiae Parisiensis," that amongst the six
manuscripts of Nicodemus which are in that wonderful collection, five
belong to the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries, and one, the earliest, can
hardly be older than the beginning of the twelfth century, as it occurs in
a collection, in which is contained an historical account of some
transactions which took place during the year 1095. (See facsimile) .

722 Nicolai Smyrngei de Supputariis Digitorum G-estibus, Greece et Latine,

(cum Figuris Manuum et Digitorum) 8vo. S^ec. xviii. on paper,

In the beautiful autograph of the celebrated Richard Porson, who appears to
have transcribed it for the press. According to Fabricius, this interesting
work, connected with the history of Arithmetic, was known to Bede when
he wrote on the subject, De Loquela Digitorum.

723 Nicholaus Esculanus Ordinis Prsedicatorum de Eloquentia, qua? in

obscuro et subtili stillo in libris declamationum Senecse latet, in claro
et apto stillo posita folio. SiEC. xiv. on paper

An unpublished manuscript of a work by Nicolas de Esculo, totally unknown to
all the biographers of this eminent author, although a tolerably ample
account of his other writings will be found in the " Scriptores Ord. Pra3di-
catorum," by Quetif and Echard.

724 Nicomaqtje l'Arithmetique, avec un Extrait de Theon, traduite en

Francais par H. J. Eisenmann folio. S^ec. xix. on paper

In the autograph of the translator, with interesting notes, and ready for publica-
tion. Very valuable for the history of Arithmetic. (See No. 329 in the
present Catalogue.)

725 Nizam-al-DIn Ahmad Bin Muhammad Muklm al-Harawi (of Herat)

" Tabkat-i-Akbarl," A general History of India down to the thirty-
seventh year of the Reign of Akbar Shah, or a.d. 1593
Indian binding folio. S.EC. xvii. ON paper

This is one of the most celebrated histories of India, and India alone forms the
subject-matter of the work, to the exclusion of the histories of other
countries. Ferishta, and other Eastern historians, by whom it is sometimes
called the TawariJfi-i-Nizaml, have borrowed from it. The author died
Anno Hegirse 1003 (a.d. 1594), and was buried hi his own garden at
Lahore. The present manuscript was copied Anno Hegirse 107L (a.d. 1G59).
Mr. Morley, in his Catalogue (p. 58-61), gives a long account of this important
work.

726 Nonii Marcelli, " Peripatethici Tyburticensis," Compendiosa Doo

TRINA PER LlTERAS AD FlLIUM DE PrOPRIETATE SeRMONUM

folio. SvEC. Xiv. ON YELLUM

A very elegant manuscript of this highly important grammarian, finely written,
in double columns, on 122 leaves of Italian vellum, and exhibiting many

100 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

important various readings. The following, taken from the first page, will
be sufficient to point out its great value to the critical scholar and editor :

Manuscript. As printed in Gothofredi Corpus.

" Ut retas mala est, mors mala est ergo -< Ut setas mala est ergo merx

Nam prudentissime noster Maro diem (omits partiens)

partiens primas partes

Quod petis senia et jurgia." Quot pestes, senia et jurgia."

Manuscripts of Nonius Marcellus are of uncommon occurrence. Hsenel
found only four of them during his literary journey throughout Europe.

727 Northitmbria (Eoberto Dudleo, Ducadi) Disegsti di Nate e Nuoya
Madiera di Fortieicatione royal folio, mdcxxix. on paper

These designs for ships and for naval fortifications are executed in a very artistic
manner, and undoubtedly were sketched by a Florentine artist of great
skill. The frontispiece representing a ship, &c. in full sail, is a drawing
well worthy of being framed. On folio 26, beneath a drawing of a curve,
is inscribed, " 11 Garbo del San Cosinio fatto dal Duca di Northumbrian
The lines laid down for building each vessel are in English feet, and the
volume is rendered more interesting, not only by manuscript descriptions,
but also by drawings of the various engines used in shipbuilding, anchors,
boats, spars, masts, &c. This valuable manuscript is the production of the
celebrated Sir Robert Dudley, Earl of Warwick, who assumed the title of
Duke of Northumberland in 1620, when created by the Pope a Duke of the
Roman Empire. He was Grand Chamberlain to the Duchess of Florence,
wife of Cosmo II. and sister of the Emperor Ferdinand II, and was author
of the extremely rare work entitled "DelV Ar-cano del Mare" so remarkable
for valuable projects for the improvement of navigation. No doubt
Sir Robert Dudley composed this bulky work, consisting of several
hundred large drawings of ships, guns, engines, fortifications, &c. in order
to show to his Medicean protector how he could improve his fleet and
naval defences, by imitating English ships and gunnery. Amongst
these drawings there are several described as English ships, and, generally,
the measures are both in English feet (piede Inglesi) and braccia i iorentine.
There are also several drawings relating to the porto di Livorno, (which this
nobleman was the means of greatly enlarging and rendering more frequented
by building the mole, and getting the Grand Duke to declare it a free port)
the whole with explanations, &c. A more important manuscript for the
history of ship building and nautical engines is not to be found. From different
inscriptions at the beginning, it appears that this manuscript was in the
possession of the noble family of Borromeo, at Padua, since 1689.

728 Nott (Sam.) Themata, Epistolae, Declamatioues, Prselectiones in Persium,

Aristotelem, &c. 8vo. 1760, on paper

An autograph manuscript from the. Library of his Son the Rev. J. F. Nott.

729 Novelle Italiane — Novella d'Amadio Niccolucci — Noyelle X di

G. F. Grazzini detto il Lasca — Piceria di Santa Nafilla d'Annibal
Caro — Parlamento d'un Plebeo Fiorentino d' A. Niccolucci —
Relazioiste dell' Ornani — Lettera di Galileo Galilei — L'Amore di
Carlo Gonzaga Duca di Mantova e della Contessa Margherita della
R. scritto dal Sig. Giulio Capocoda — Il Mercurio Postiglione
half calf folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

An interesting collection. Amadio Niccolucci, is by a sort of anagram, the
pseudonyme under which the Inquisition tolerated, during the seventeenth
century in Italy, the mention or printing of the name of Niccolo Machia-
velli. The letter of Galileo is the celebrated Epistle to Madama Cris-
tina, which was so obnoxious to the Inquisition and was so rigorously
suppressed. Nothing is more uncommon than to find old manuscripts of the
Novelle del Lasca (Grazzini), which, on account of their licentiousness,
were only circulated in secret, and not allowed to be printed before
the middle of the last century. The readings of this manuscript are
excellent.

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730 Noyelli (Alexandri Pauli) de clarissimo Castri Franci (Castel Franco),

Praetore D. Georgio Semitecolo Oratio Mo. 1584, on paper

An autograph manuscript, dated " v. Kalendas Deeembris, mdlxxxiiii."

731 Nuremberg. Drawings of Thirty-eight Coats of Arms of the principal

Families in Nuremberg, beautifully emblazoned in gold, silver and
colours 4to. Sjec. xvi. on yellum

732 Officium Beatae Mariae Yirginis Romanae Curiae — Missa B. MariaB

Virginis — Officium Mortuorum — Septem Psalmi Penitentiales et
Letaniae — Officium Sancti Spiritus — Officium Sanctae Crucis
green silk 12nio. S.EC. xv. on vellum

Beautifully written on Italian vellum, with six miniatures and numerous richly
illuminated capitals in gold and colours, having the name of the scribe at
the end of the Officium Mortuorum, u Et scriptum manu M. Christ ofori de
la turre." Prefixed is a Calendar with an illuminated capital at the com-
mencement of each month. Next follows a painting of an altar, having
for inscription, " Sacratis. Virgini. Marie. DiCATUM,"in golden capitals.
The first page is finely illuminated with a miniature in the centre (the
Annunciation). To each of the other services, are appropriate miniatures
executed in gold and colours, in the style of Maitre Simon, " the Master
of Distances."

733 Officium Yirginis Marie secundum consuetudinem Romane curie cum

Calendario 12mo. Smc. xv. ON yellum

Written by an Italian Scribe on pure vellum, and adorned with five small
Miniatures or capital letters, two of the pages having elegant borders,
the first of which surrounds a graceful " Madonna and Child." The
Calendar is rich in Benedictine Saints.

734 Officium BeataB Mariae Virginis, cum Calendario. Accedit Officium

Sanctae Crucis 8vo. S^ec. xv. on yellum

Written by the French Scribe, Jaquin, with singular illuminated capitals, and
having (a rare occurrence) his autograph at the end of the first Service.
Several of the prayers are in the French language. The volume does not
appear quite complete.

735 Officium sacratissimi corporis domini nostri jesu christi crucifixi

12mo. S^:c. xv. on yellum

Very neatly written by an Italian Scribe, and adorned with ten Miniatures (arms
of the former possessor and Scenes from the Life of Our Saviour), execu-
ted in gold and colours. " Figurate per me franciscum a libris anno d.
mcccclx," is written under the first painting by a more recent hand.

736 Oliya (Fabio, "di Forli") Vita di Catherina Sforza de Medici morta

nel 1508, vellum folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper

Catherina Sforza was celebrated for the great courage she displayed in opposing
Csesar Borgia, as she had previously resisted a rebellion, during which she
made that famous heroic answer mentioned by several historians, but which
decency forbids us to repeat, when urged to surrender, or her son who had
been made prisoner should be put to death. Neither Sismondi in his article
in the Biographie Universelle, nor Tiraboschi, have made any mention of
this important work by Oliva, which seems quite unknown, as we could not
find any mention of it either in the excellent index of the Archivio Storico,
or in the Catalogo dei Manoscritti posseduti dal Marchese G. Capponi,
a collection so rich in every thing connected with Italian history, and of
which the learned owner makes such splendid use.

737 Oliyerii Michaelis Senensis, Artium et Medicinae Doctoris, de

Divina Sapientia Opusculum 4>to. SiEC. xv. on yellum

Beautifully written on very pure Italian vellum, with richly illuminated capitals.
The first page of the work is within an elegant floreated border, with the

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162 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

arms of the Cardinal Hippolito d'Este, to whom the treatise is dedicated,
introduced. Prefixed are some Italian verses addressed to the same Car-
dinal. We cannot find any mention of this work, which seems unpublished.
The same author's Opus tripartitum rationalis scientice, &c. dedicated to
Cardinal John de Medicis, the son of Lorenzo, was printed in 1491, and is a
work of the greatest rarity. Neither Quadrio, nor Tiraboschi, nor Fabricius
speak of this Oliverius Senensis, who was at the same time an Italian poet,
a physician and an imitator of Cicero's Latinity. A curious fact is that the
manuscript of the whole Latin work (consisting of 268 leaves of the purest
Italian vellum) is written in a fine Italian gothic hand about the middle
of the XVth century, and that the Italian poetical dedication to Hip-
polito is certainly written subsequently in Roman characters. The same
thing occurs in the last leaf, so that in all probability this manuscript was
intended at first for another party, and was only presented to Cardinal
Hippolito when he became a high dignitary of the Roman church. The
Italian verses, filling 8 pages, are very curious. The poet addresses the
Cardinal, "Io ho scripto di te piu volte in rima," and compares the three
lilies of the Este family arms with the three persons of the Trinity. Such
were the abominable flatteries lavished upon a Cardinal, who had put out
the eyes of his brother Julius, in order to punish him for the preference
given to him by a lady of whom Hippolito was also enamoured.

738 Omar Ben-Afar Aganai Tebiadis Tractatus de Nativitatibus

folio. Sjec. xiv-xv. on paper

This manuscript, with diagrams and Arabic numerical figures, might be supposed
to be the same work of which a copy is quoted amongst the Latin manu-
scripts in the " Catalogus Bibliothec?e Regise Parisiensis," under the title of
" Omar de revolutionibus nativitatum libri tres," were not the work contained
in the present manuscript divided into two instead of three books. Very
probably, however, it may be the same work which was printed at Venice
in 1503, in 4to. under the the title " Omar Tiberiadis liber de nativitatibus
et interrogationibus."

739 Ongaro (Domenico) Note al Costabile 4to. Sjec. xviii. on paper

An autograph manuscript of D. Ongaro of Udine, who was the owner of the
famous ancient " Canzionere d'Autore anonimo,11 written on vellum, in which
the Poem here annotated is to be found. (See No. 871 in the present
Catalogue.)

710 Onosandrt DE OPTIMO Imperatore eligendo per Nicolaitm Secun-

DINEM E Gr^ECO IN LaTINUM CONVERSES LlBER, CUM Pr^FATIONE
AD ReGEM PRJESTANTISSIMEM AlFONSUM ArAGONIEM — FrONTINI

(Sexti Jelii) Rei Militaris Libri
olue morocco, gilt edges 4ito. Sjec. xv. on yellum

This exquisite manuscript, with the name of the Scribe P. Hippolyti Lunensis
manu, is written on the purest vellum, having the initials richly illuminated
and heightened with burnished gold. The title-page and first leaf of both
the Onosander and Frontinus, finely written in gold and blue capital letters,
are enriched with the most elegant borders, and are exquisite specimens of
Italian ornamental art. On the reverse of the first leaf there is a beautiful
dedicatory inscription, showing that this is the identical copy offered
by the translator Secundinus to Alphonsus of Aragon, King of
Naples, who, as is well known, was one of the greatest Collectors and
patrons of arts and learning during the fifteenth century, and who on
that account as well as for his great political talents, deserved and obtained
the name of the magnanimous. Although, generally speaking, these gor-
geous manuscripts are not celebrated ior the purity of the text, still this
one offers some good various readings. For instance, the Frontinus has
at the end, " Eodem die et navali et campestri prcelio victi sunt," which
perhaps is better than the "pedestri prcelio" of the Editio Princcps.
Concerning Secundinus, see Fabricius (Bibl. Lat. Med. vol. V, p. 109.)

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 1G3

741 Optica. De Luminis Reflexione folio. S^c. xviii. on paper

With the description of some curious experiments.

742 Opitscula Theologica. An or s tines (S.) de Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus,

de Vita Christiana et de A gone Christian o — Mikacula B. Maria?
Virginis — Epistola Pjlati ad Claudiam — Descejptio Terra? Sanctse
— De S. Thoma Cantitariensi — De Anti-Christo — De Beata
Helena, &c. &c. in the original binding 4to. Sjec. xv. on paper

A valuable collection from the " Carthusia Erfordise." This manuscript which
contains a great variety of curious opuscula, several apparently unpublished,
is remarkable for the great number of numerical figures which it contains,
and which, in some instances, had at that period already assumed their
present shape. The spurious Epistola Pylati is rare in manuscripts.

743 Oration Sacree 4to. Smc. xvii. on paper

In the autograph of an anonymous orator, who, in his interlineary corrections,
shows his curious way of working up a text.

744 Origenis Expositio de Epistola B. Pauli Apostoli ad Romanos traducta

a Rufi.no Presbytero cum Prologo S. Hieronimi — Hieronimi Pres-
byteri (S.) Commentum super Epistolas S. Pauli ad Galathas, ad
Titum, ad Ephesios et ad Philemonem folio. S^c. x. on vellum

This fine and venerable manuscript is written on pure vellum, in double columns,
in large Carlovingian characters, with very curious large initials, painted in
the best style of the time, the first (a P, on the reverse of the second leaf,)
measuring almost 6 inches, and containing the head of St. Paul. Ancient
manuscripts of this work of Origen are exceedingly scarce, and in the
u Catalogus Bibl. Reg. Paris.," only six are described; the whole of them
from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. At the end of the tenth book of
the Expositio of Origen there is the following inscription of the eleventh
century, in rhyming Leonines, and shewing that the noble volume was pre-
sented (to some church ?) by a Leo Judex :

" Virtutum frutex, nimium sapiens leo iudex,
Hunc nobilem librum, donavit maxime minim.
Pro quo tu lector, supplex orare mementor.
Die pastor Christe, factor quondam crucifixe.
Gudia sanatorum, sibi da quoque regna polorum.
Paulus Ihesu oret, Scripptor firmissime ploret."

At the end of the Commentary of St. Hierome, there is the following
inscription in capitals :

" In nomine dei summi incipit tractatus beati Iohannis Constantinopolitani
episcopi in epistola Pauli apostoli ad Hsebreos, a Constantino presbytero antioceno
grsece editus et in latinum a Mutiano Scholastico translatum."

But as this volume is quite perfect, and already large and thick enough, it
is most probable that either this last work was never transcribed, or that origi-
nally it was bound separately. The work of S. Joannes Chrysostomus
mentioned here, was published after his death (ex notis editus) by that
Gonstantinus who, hi the (two only and more recent) manuscripts described
in the "Catalogus Bibl. Reg. Paris." in which his name occurs, is called
Constantius. In this manuscript the Greek words are written in large
uncial Greek characters, and the transcription in Latin letters, generally
added at the same period, shows that at that tune the Greek letters
were pronounced in the same way in which they are now by the modern
Greeks. All the numerical figures contained in this manuscript are
written according to the ancient alphabetical Roman system. From the
appearance of the large illuminated initials this manuscript is supposed to
have been written by Irish artists, or at least by scribes connected with
the Irish school. (See facsimile.)

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164 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

745 Origenes super Psalmum XXXYIII. — Sentento; SS. Patrum7

(S,ec. xii.) — S. Auotjstini Summa de Conflictu Virtutum et
Viciorum, (S^c. xiv.) 8vo. Smc. xii. et xiv. on vellum

Apparently written by an English scribe. At the end are two leaves of the
fifteenth century, containing " notabilia & bona valde exempla" and con-
cluding with " Iste liber pertinet domince Annce, Schuldham" beneath which
is written, in a later hand, "Iste liber pertinet ad Fratem Johannem Mathew "

746 Orleans. Arret du Parlement par le quel le pretendu Mariage de

Monsieur (le Due d' Orleans) avec la Princesse Marguerite de
Lorraine est declare non valablement contract*? 5 Sept. 1634 —
Declarations authentiques de la Bonte et Yaleur du Mariage de
M. le Due d' Orleans, &c. selon la Resolution des Docteurs de
Louvaine avec l'Acte de Ratification, &c. 4<to. Smc. xvii. on paper

The first paper is more modern, but the last two documents, partly written on
the back of the bill of interment of M. de Chaumontel (1690), are ancient,
and they have autograph corrections by the learned Baluze. (See also
Nos. 388, 1125, 1153-58, in the present Catalogue.)

747 Orosii Presbtteri Qusestiones de Fide cum Responsionibus B. Augus-

tini, velvet Svo. S^ic. xi. on yellum

A curious manuscript, with very singular ornaments in ink and colours. The
quaterniones (quires or sheets) are numbered, which is a rather uncommon
occurrence in old manuscripts. Concerning this work see Fabricius (Bib.
Lai. Med. vol. V. p. 178.) At the end in another hand, there are three
leaves containing curious information respecting the ancient liturgy and
modus cantandi. (See facsimile)

748 Otloh: Monachi Yita S. Wolekangi Episcopi Ratisbonensis

4itO. S^EC. xi. ON YELLUM

We have already spoken (see No. 491 in the present Catalogue) of this Otloh,
or Othlonius, as he is sometimes called, who was a Benedictine Priest and
Monk of the Monastery of St. Emmeram, near Ratisbon, where, for upwards
of thirty years he resided, filling various offices, including those of Prefect
of the Studies and Dean. In 1062, the year in which St. Emmeram was
burnt, he fled " cum igitur persecutionem in monasterio nostro passus eram'1''
to Fulda, and there uper annos quatuor cum tranquillitate magna commoratus
viderer" as we are informed in his Autobiography (de ipsius Tentationibus,
varia fortuna et ScriptisJ first published by Pez in his Anecdota.
Where or when he died is uncertain. This life of St. Wolfgang he himself
tells us was written at the earnest request of the Monks of St. Emmeram,
before he removed to Fulda. His words are :

"Fratrum quorundam nostrum hortatu sedulo innmus ego 0[tloh] Cenobitarura
Sancti Emmerami compulsus sum Sancti Wolfkangi vitam ab antecessoribus nostris
in libellulis duobus dissimili interdum et impolita materie descriptam in unum col-
ligere atque aliquantulum sublimiori stilo corrigere. Quibus ssepius renitendo, &c.

This manuscript is certainly in the author's autograph, and the work con-
cludes with his dedication of it to St. Boniface :

" Presbyter et Monachus Otloh quidam vocitatus
Sancte tibi librum Bonifaci tradidit istum."

In some Latin words, the accents in this manuscript are of the same shape
as the neumes. See also Nos. 2G9, 424, 523, and 1103, in the present
Catalogue. (See facsimile.)

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SIXTH DAY'S SALE.

LOT

749 Ovidii Nasonis de Artibus Amoris Libellus; de Eemedio Amoruin
Libri duo ; medicata Facies ; Culex ; Elegise, et Nux

8VO. BjEC. XV. ON VELLUM

A fine specimen of Italian caligraphy, written on exceedingly pure vellum, with
richly illuminated capitals heightened by burnished gold, the first page
being within a beautiful border. At the end of the Culex there are two
epigrams of Bernardinus Cyllenius, the name assumed by Francesco Ottavio
Cleofilo for his amatory poetry, which was probably fostered by the perusal
of this truly beautiful manuscript. It will supply many valuable readings
as will be seen by the collation only of the Nux with Valpy's edition, as
we find two passages totally omitted in the printed editions.

MANUSCRIPT. EDITION.

Line 57 operosa cura colono operoso cura colono

„ 58 Invenies quod det (as Medicean Cod.) invenias qui det

„ 70 Non possum ne possim

„ 72 Et condit et condis

„ 73 Has puer aut certo lectas Has puer aut rectus certo

„ 74 Aut pronas Aut pronus

„ 81 Fit quoque de terra Fit quoque de creta

„ 86 In quo missa In quod missa

.,, 87 in arvo, confirming the Ed. Pr. and as the editor justly remarks meliores scripti although

vulg. in agro

„ 93 fructus foetus

„ 94 Ante diem nostrae dejiciuntur opes Ante diemque mese dicutiuntur opes

„ 96 Nee mala sustuli Nee mala sunt ulli

„ 97 Tunc tamen invenio Jam tamen invenias

„ 99 habet habes

„ 106 Nee ventus causa est Nee ventus fraudi

„ 113 nati natae

„ 115 Me quae non noceo Me quia nee noceo

„ 135 Scilicet hac Si licet hoc

„ 162 Aut rapido Aut valido

„ 163 Atque etiam Atque utinam

„ 169 Nee mutare . . . vulnera Nee vitare .... verbera

„ 170 Quod sub humo . . . curva Quern sub humo .... firma

„ 175 Saepe meas frondes vento tremuisse Seepe meas vento frondes tremuisse

putasti putastis

„ 181 Si cur non urar Si nee cur urar

Between lines 170 and 171 are the following lines totally omitted by
Valpy :

" Sic ego continuo fortunes vulneror ictu
Vix habet in nobis jam nova plaga locum
Nee magis assiduo vomer tenuatur ab usu
Nee magis est curvis appia trita rotis
Pectora quce mea sunt serie cascata malorum
Et nihil inveni quod mihi ferret opem."

Also the following couplet between 180 and 181 :

" Si merui videorque nocens imponite flammae
Nostraque fumosis urite membra focis."

This valuable codex, which in many of its readings agrees with the celc-

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THE LIBEI MANTTSCKIFTS,

brated Medicean codex, and with the Editio Princeps, was probably copied
from a very ancient manuscript, as it exhibits the spelling of the earliest
ages. Want of space renders it impossible to expatiate any further on
the various readings which are to be found in this manuscript. We shall,
therefore, only add that generally the titles of the Elegise totally differ
from those which are in Valpy's edition, and that in every respect this
manuscript is worthy of the greatest attention. Some of the works of Ovid
contained therein, for instance the Elegise, are very seldom found in manu-
scripts. Of the Medicaid fades and of the Nux a single manuscript only is
quoted in the great " Catalogus Bibliothecse Regise Parisiensis," where
ahnost innumerable manuscripts of other works of Ovid are preserved.

750 Ovidii Ars Amatoria et Eemedia Amoris ; Saphos Lesbia Mytelena

Phaoni, &e. 4>to. S^:c. xv. on paper

The Ars Amatoria wants the first 120 lines. It is evidently the transcript of a
scholar from one or more manuscripts, as he has sometimes noted the varia-
tions in the readings, but he seems to have grown tired of making this
copy, as in several places he has written u Melius ^sometimes Bellius)
scrijisisset scriptor si voluisset." At the end there is a Latin Epitaph of
Sappho.

751 Oyidii Nasonis (P.) Fasti ; Tristia; Pontus ; Ibis ; ISTux; Philomena;

et Libri de Cuculo, de Pulice, de Medicamine Faciei et de Medi-
camine Aurium folio. S^;c. xv. on yelltjm

Written by an Italian Scribe upon very pure vellum, and having the numerous
initial letters most elegantly painted in gold and colours. This manuscript
has apparently never been collated, as though it exhibits a very correct
text, there are many various readings totally unnoticed by former editors, for
instance: Fasti I, 18, the manuscript reads " Ingenium vultu fitque caditque
tuo" instead of the usual statque caditque; line 43, tantum for Janum; 45;
Deorum for Dierum ; 55, Ausonidas for Ausonias ; 57, Nonse for Nonarum ,
63, fastum for faustum; 76, specilis ara focis for spica Cilissa focis, praeerunt
forprseeunt, &c. &c. Similar important variae lectiones will be found in the
other Works, but we must content ourselves with pointing out those which
occur in the Medicamine Faciei, compared with Valpy's edition :

Manuscript.

Line 3 pandere
„ 4 Semina mordaces
„ 6 accepit

„ 9 Vellus medicatur aheno
„ 10 Forsitan antiqua tacita sub lege

Sabinae
„ 17 nostra?

„ 20 Conspicuas manus

„ 21 repertos
„ 25 potiuntur
„ 26 vultus
„ 27 Prosequseque parat et quos vene-

retur amores
„ 28 munditia meret

„ 31 quascunque
„ 35 vos urget
„ 38 tentare
„ 41 hera

„ 44 faciles placent
„ 50 Perque annos tunc
„ 52 Discite,cum teneros sopitus desinit

artus
„ 52 possunt
„ 53 Ordea
„ 62 innumeris

„ 63 Addite Nartisci bullas

, 64 Strenuas quas

Edition.

pendere

Munera mordaces

accipit

Vellera medicantur aeno

Forsitan antiquse Tatio sub rege Sabinae

vestrse

Conspicuam manum

paratos

poliuntnr

cultus

Proin quasque parent; nee quo venentur

amores
munditia? merent

quotacumque
nos uret
tentate
asra

facies placet
Fertque annos hinc
Disce, age, cum teneros somnus dimiserit

artus
possint
Hordea
in cribris

Adjice Narcissi bulbos
Strenua quos

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Line 65 semlne visco semine Thusco

„ 69 pallere torrere

„ 70 instantis corpora frugiferai inflantes corpora frige fabas

„ 71 habent habeant

„ 72 cornminuere comminuenda

„ 74 Ibriaca Illyrica

„ 77 Additaque Addita de

„ 78 calcionea Halcyonea

„ 85 radenti corpora sale radenti tubera nitro

„ 86 utrunque trahens utrirnque triens

, 88 viridis e myrrhis

„ 89 contuderis contriris

„ 91 marathos myrtis marathros myrrhis

,,92 parant maratlii trahant maratlni

„ 93 prehendit prehendat

„ 95 Ordea qua? Hordea quem.

„ 97 Tempore sint parvo molli licet Tempore sis parvo molles licet illita

illita vultu vultus

,, 100 illiniatque genis illineretque genis

The lines de Medicamine aurium are not to be found in any edition of
Ovid's works, but are mentioned by Fabricius amongst the apocryphal
works of Virgil, and as they are not in the last edition (given by H. Meyer)
of the Anthologia of Burmann, in all probability they are unpublished. Very
possibly they maybe the same verses mentioned only in the Latin manuscript
6707 of the " Catalogus Bibliothecae Regise Parisiensis " under the title of
De Medicamine Surdi. All these curious little poems are extremely scarce in
manuscript. In the Index of that great Catalogue only a single manuscript of
the De Medicamine faciei is to be found (besides a fragment in No. 6707
not alluded to therein), three of the Ibis, and three also of the curious
poem De Philomena, in which the author imitates the cries of various
animals. As for the poem De Cucido, it is neither mentioned hi Fabricius
nor in the Catalogue above named, and therefore it must be a great
curiosity.

752 Ovidit Nasonis (Publii) Epistolse Heroides

in the original wooden binding, with clasps folio. SiEC. xv. ON papek
This manuscript belonged to the celebrated Alberti Family of Florence.

753 Ovidii Nasonis (P.) Metamoephoses folio. S^c. xv. on yellum

A splendid manuscript, beautifully written by an Italian scribe on pure vellum,
with the initial capital to each of the fifteen books elegantly scrolled and
illuminated in colours, heightened with burnished gold. This is one of the
finest manuscripts of the Metamorphoses in existence, and the volume is in
that elegant narrow size so appreciated by Connoisseurs. The text is very
good, and affords valuable various readings, besides variantes, taken from
other manuscripts, and written on the margins in the fifteenth century by
some learned scholar.

754 Ovidii Nasonis (Publii) Metamoephoses

in the original oak boards folio. S^ec. xv. on paper

A very distinctly written manuscript, which deserves a careful collation. The
writer is discovered by the following couplet, written chiefly in Greek
characters, on the fly-leaf at end : —

" Nome v va>v irwyca qvrja Me AauSape Noy uoAo
a-r] vkr?(T (ripe Kovavecr CapAe <pvr)T TjAAe."

The manuscript is written in an Italian hand, before the invention of
printing. It contains at the end some Argumenta of each book in verse,
with a prose commentary, attributed to an old grammarian, but which,
from the fact that they are very seldom found in manuscript, were the
occasion of much controversy amongst scholars ; and, lastly, some curious
" Carmina comperta in sepulcro Ovidii." The volume belonged to several
parties during the fifteenth century, and one of them (a school-boy) has
written in it the following memorandum :

" Istc liber est mey Chini de Sergnarneris et fratris eius
Qui vadunt ad scolam magistri Petri de Manna Cremonensis."

1G3 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

755 Oyide, Heroides traduites en Francoys

old French red morocco, gilt edges 4<fo. S.ec. xv. on yellum

756 Oyide. Le grand Olympe ou Philosophie Poetique attribute au Tres

Renomme Ovide, Traduit du Latin en Langue Francoise (en Vers)
avec Annotations folio. SvEC xvii. on paper

A transcript of an earlier manuscript, of which the colophon seems to have been : —
"Cette Traduction et annotations sont achevez d'escrire ce 26 mars Tan 1430."
It is a Treatise on Alchemy, in verse, and apparently unpublished. It
begins with " Olympe qui jadis fust tant," and ends at page 142, with " Je
finirai sans nulle glose — Le livre des metamorphoses." It is very curious.

757 Padova. Privifegia Monachorum Sanctse Justinae in Padua

8V0. SiEC. XV. ON YELLUM

Tlie importance of these monastic Privilegia and the rarity of manuscripts con-
taining them are well known to students of church discipline. Speaking of
the collections of these Privilegia, Dowling calls them, " the Sources of
Ecclesiastical History," and " indispensable information on Monachism."

758 Padoya. Privilegia Congregationis Cassinensis alias S. Justine de

Padua Ordinis S. Benedicti 4ito. Syec. xvi. (1519) on yellum

A valuable collection, very finely written, of ancient Privilegia granted to the con-
gregation of S. Justina de Padua, so celebrated for its splendid library
of manuscripts. A curious fact is that this collection agrees only in some
portions with the previous manuscript.

759 Paduano (Antonio) II Masaniello overo Istoria delle Rivoluzioni suc-

cesse nel Eegno di Napoli 4fo. Sjsc. xviii. (1739) on paper

This author is not mentioned either by Tiraboschi, Soria, or Giustiniani, and
must therefore be considered not only as unpublished, but also as unknown.

760 Pancratii Martyris Oeeicitjm et Passio Mo. S^:c. x. on yellum

Written in large Carlovingian characters, with the title in red capitals, and
having the musical notes marked "en Ncumes" that is in the ancient
style, without lines. Prefixed is a leaf containing the names of the Greek
numerals with the corresponding alphabetical Roman figures, which is
not a common occurrence. (See also No. 299 in the present Catalogue).
This leaf is undoubtedly of great interest both to the linguist and the his-
torian of arithmetic, the names of the Greek numerals being deformed in a
very remarkable manner. (See facsimile.)

761 Paolo IV. Avvenimenti del Pontificato di Paolo IV e della Casa

Carafa con i Capi del Processo del Cardinal Carlo Carafa e loro
Difese folio. S^ec. xvii-xviii. on paper

A most interesting and unpublished collection, apparently written by one of the
Carafa family, who, on the title page, has placed his initials, F. C. — Cardi-
nal Caraffa, as History informs us, was hanged on the 4th of March, 1561,
by the order of Pope Pius IV. as an accomplice in the murder of the
Countess di Montorio, and for other crimes. This voluminous manuscript
(more than 800 pages) contains most curious documents respecting the whole
transaction, as well as relating to the reversal of the sentence on the
Caraffa family by order of Pope Pius V, who also commanded the chief
judge, Al. Pallontieri, who pronounced the first sentence, to be decapitated.
We do not find in the Archivio Storico Italiano any mention of the docu-
ments contained in this volume.

762 Papal Documents. Constitutiones S. Collegii — Excerpta ex

Decretis Consistorialibus — Cardinalium et Episcoporum Nomina
qui vel Capti vel occisi sunt a Principibus ssecularibus — Instruc-
tions Alexandri VI, data3 Buzardo Nuntio ituro ad Bajazetem
Turcarum Imperatorem Anno mccccxciy. — Epistola Card. Gri-

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 169

maldi — Homage Electiones super dubiis Conclavis — Qujenam cavere
quae vero non teneantur Cardinales in Electione Pontificis — Aro-
rismi Politici per il Conclave del Sig. Card. Azzolini — Modus
eligendi Pontifices — Quid spectare debeat Cardinalis in eligendo
Pontifice — Esclusiva de i Re se debba attendersi nell' Elettione del
S P. Eomano — Il Sogno di Pasquino — Le Fourier de l'Europe
ou le Logement des Nations, Princes et Particuliers dans les Rues
de Paris, avec leurs Proverbes — Sonetti nello Sede vacante d'lnno-
centio XI. — Eisposta al Colascione di 3 Corde — Il Botteghino
restaurato — Poeta Ammalato per essere uscito il Bando contro le
Satire — Folium Eescriptorum — Relatione di quanto si e negotiato
in questa lunga e pericolosa malatia del Papa 18 Xbre 1699 —
Sonetti, Eco et altre Poesie 4>to. S^ec. xvii. on paper

This manuscript, containing several hundred pages, is full of the most curious
information. Most of these tracts are unpublished, and although the
manuscript was evidently written in Rome, they are generally against the
Roman Court. Some of the Poems are written in the Romanesco dialect.
To find in a manuscript written at Rome the celebrated Instructions of
Alexander VI. is a matter of the rarest occurrence.

763 Papii (Joannis, " Academise Bituricensis Prsesidis ") Album Amicorum,

1619-1623, half morocco folio. SiEC. xvii. (1619-23) on paper

A Collection of Twenty-five Coats of Arms, splendidly emblazoned in gold,
silver and colours, with inscriptions addressed to Papius in the. autographs
of their owners. Amongst these are the autograph signatures of Sigismund
Baron Schneeberg, 1619; G. 0. T. Krausse, 1619 ; J. R. Hund, 1620;
Paulus Rantzovius, 1621; Ulrich Truchses, 1622 ; H. Valckenaer, 1622;
Jacobus Florenty, 1623; &c. &c. &c. Papius was the protector of the
German students in the University of Bourges in France.

764 Parabola Salomonis, Ecclesiastes, Cantica, Liber Sapienti^;,

Ecclesiasticus (liber Jesu Filii Syracbi) cum Glossis

folio. SiEC. xii. on yellum

A fine biblical manuscript, with large and curious illuminated initials, apparently
written by an English scribe.

765 Parliament. The Maner of Parliamente in the tyme of Kyng Edwarde

and of Etheldrede, and William the Conqueror, &c.

4to. Smc. xvi. on paper

A transcript of " a little old parchment booke remayning with the clerke of the
parliament," written circa 1560. Though held as very high authority by
Lord Coke, we do not find that it has been printed.

766 Pasquino in Estasi — Stanze sopra il Mai Francese

vellum Mo. S^ec. xvii. on paper

The Pasquino is a satirical and free dialogue in the style of Aretino. The Stanze
have every appearance of being in the handwriting of Alessandro Tassoni,
the celebrated author of the Secchia Rapita. This poem, of a very free
character, seems quite unknown. A singular fact is, that it is written in
the same rhime that Ariosto used in the Orlando Furioso, of which it is a
sort of parody, as will be apparent from the first stanza here subjoined :

" Le gomme, 1'inquietudini, i dolori,
E le galliche bolle io scrivo e canto,
Che fur quando i Francesi traditori
Passaro i monti e Italia offeser tanto,
In Napoli spargendo i frutti e i fiori
Di questo niorbo, a cui del legno santo
Tal hor 1' acqua non giova, e spesso invano
V adopra ogni rimedio ingegno humano."

170 THE LIBRI MANUSCKIPTS.

767 Pasbio Sancti Sebastiani atqtje Sancti Yincentii Levitt. Inclu-

duntur etiam Passiones SS. Tranquillini, Marcelliani et Marii Mar-
tyrum, item et S. Tyburtii Martyris 4<to. Sjec. x-xi. on yellum

A very ancient manuscript, well written, in a beautiful Carlovingian hand. (See
facsimile.)

768 Passion de Jesus Christ — Ichi comesche la passio du sauueur et

redeptuer ihesu christ chelo le quattre eualiste

Svo. Sjec. xv. on papee
Curiously written, in a sort of dialect.

769 Passionale Sanctorum Martyrttm, &c. scilicet — Vita et Actus

Sci Silvestri Papae Urbis Rome — Yita Sese Grenofevse Yirginis —
Yita S. Benedicti — Yita S. Remigii Episcopi et Confessoris —
Passiones S. Eelicis Presbyteri, S. Marcelli Papaa aliorumque —
YitjE S. Hadelini Confessoris (aliorumque Sanctorum multorum)
half morocco folio. Sjec. xi. on yellum

A splendid manuscript of the Ancient Passionale, with several of the large
capitals flourished in elegant designs, that of the "Passio S. Bartholomei
Apostoli," representing a triple Cathedral. In the " Yita Sanctissimi Servatii
Tungrensis Ecclesise Antistitis," the Greek words rv<£0i areavTov occur, written
hioti ce aytwn. Amongst other Lives preserved in this venerable manu-
script are the apocryphal accounts of the Martyrdoms of St. Peter and
St. Paul, written as here stated,*" a Lino Episcopo Romano Grseca lingua...
et ecclesiis orientalibus destinatum." These Lives of Saints are very
valuable, as they contain much information respecting the history of
Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, which, without the help of
such biographies, would be involved in much greater darkness than it is.
The Lives of Saint Genofeve, of S. Remigius, S. Yitis, S. Symphorianus,
S. Servatius, S. Benedictus, and of several other saints, are considerable
works intimately connected with the history of Italy and France at the
very beginning of what is called modern history. The drawing of the
three churches embodied in the large capital I, which is at the beginning of
the Passio S. Bartholomei affords one of the rarest specimens of architectural
drawings during that period, and the very first words of the same Life
(which is full of curious information relating to ancient India) show that
the author was acquainted with the existence of the three different Indias
of the ancients, a fact not so generally known as it ought to be, but which
explains some passages of ancient classical history, which, otherwise it would
be very difficult to understand. These words are :

" Indie tres esse apud historiographer dicimtur. Prima est India quas ad
ethiopiam mittit. Secunda quee ad medos. Tertia qua finem facit; Nam ex uno
latere tenebrarum regionem gerit, ex alio mare oceanum."

Of the lives of Saints, known as Passionalia, which are held in great estimation
amongst learned men, only a very few can compete with the present, either
on account of their antiquity, or of the number of lives they contain. Our
manuscript, consisting of about 170 leaves, is written in double columns, in
very fine Roman characters, without any mixture of any Gothic form what-
ever. In the great Catalogus Bibliothecce Pegice Parisiensis there is an im-
mense number of these Vitce Sanctorum, but, with a few exceptions, the
manuscripts in which they are contained belong to the thirteenth,
fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. We must add that the present manu-
script contains a Passio S. Gengulfi martyris quce est Vidusneati, connected
with the history of Pippinus rex Francorum, which life of St. Gengulfus
we have not found in the Index of the said Catalogus Bibliotheca, Regias,
and therefore we are induced to believe that this life, which is also inte-
resting as forming (under the title of Hystoria S. Gangolfi) the subject of
one of the poems of the celebrated Hrosvita, is exceedingly scarce. We
do not know if this S. Gengulfus has any connexion with the S. Gennulfus
whose life is in a manuscript of the twelfth century at Montpellier ( Cata-
logue General des Manuscrits, p. 292). (See facsimile. J

THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS. 171

770 Pauli (S.) Epistol^e cum Glossis

morocco small folio. S^:c. xi. on vellum

Beautifully written in the character which was used in Europe before the intro-
duction of the angular gothic, with fine illuminated initials executed in
gold and colours in the style peculiar to that period. The glosses are
written in a very fine small character [See facsimile).

771 Pauli de Pergula Tractatus Logica?, " Explicit feliciter Tractatus logice

magri Pauli de La pgula p'itissimi Viri die Scto Epiphanie sexto
Jauuarii per me Marim. de sctonaz0. Canoicm. Berem. 1454" — Ejus-
dem Tractatus de Sensu, &c. " Explicit Tractatus de Senssu com-
posito et diviso edito a prasclarissimo viro Magistro Paulo Perguleusi
doctissimo et famosissimo die octavo Januarii 1454, in Monasterio
S. Johannis de Viridario Padua?. Deo sit Laus et Gloria, Amen.
Deo Gracias, Amen " — Ejusdem Sophismata Asinina

8vo. Sjsc. xv. (1454) on paper

Paulo della Pergola was a celebrated professor of philosophy at Venice and
died in 1451. Tiraboschi, who gives a minute account of his works, did
not know of these curious Sophismata Asinina.

772 Pauli de Pergula Logica et Versus breves super omnes Eegulas Sup-

positionum — Alexandei (de Alexandria, Ordinis Minorum Gene-
ralis) Methaphisica

8v0. S^IC. XV. PAETLY ON PAPEE, PAETLY ON VELLUM

Wadding, in his Scriptores Orel. Min. (p. 5), informs us that Alexander de Alex-
andria was elected General of the Order in 1313, and died in 1314. He
also says that the Commentaries on Metaphysics existing under the name
of Alexander ab Hales are his, but does not mention this work.

773 Pauli Yeneti Commentarium super Libris Posteriorum (Aristotelis)

folio. $mc. XV. ON PAPEE

Paul the Venetian, according to writers on the Augustine Order, was one of the
family of the Niccoletti, and on entering the order first studied at Oxford,
and then at Padua, where he died in 1429. His reputation was so great
that in the Acts of the University of Padua, as cited by Facciolatl, he is
called " Doctor profunelissimus, omniumque liber alium Artium in Orbe
Monarchal The famous physician Michele Savonarola, his pupil, has
gratefully recorded the fame of his master, whom he styles " Principe de
filosofi del nostro tempo e mio glorioso maestro la cui Ulustre fama e sparsa
per Vuniversita tutte d1 Italia. Egli compose opere di logica e di fisica delle
quali si giovano mirabilmente i nostri lettori nello spiegare a? discepoli i hbri
d'Aristotile." The Logic, or Dialectica here mentioned, was so prized in
the XVth century that the University of Padua, in 1496, ordered it to be
adopted as the Public Lecture Book. On the first page there are the arms
of an ancient owner, with a large capital, both printed in colours.

774 Pauli de Veneciis, Logica 4fo. Sjec. xv. (1425) on vellum

This manuscript of the Logica Magna has the date with the name of the Scribe,
and of the place where it was written : " Explicit logica magistri pauli de veneciis
scripta in Civitate Novaree in tempore Sanctissimi Domini Papee Martini
quinti pontificatus s. VII, necnon Philippi Mariaz Ducis Mediolanensis et
patris scriptoriqui scripsit, cum magna frequentiei in Anno MCCCCXXV. ultimei
marciV At the end of this fine manuscript there is a sort of philosophical
classification of human knowledge and of everything in existence.

775 Peeini (Giuseppe, "della Comp. di Giesu") Orazione per l'lncoro-

nazione del Ser. Luca Inurea Doge di Genova
in the author* 8 autograph folio. SiEC. xvii. on papee

172 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

776 Perizonii (J.) Notse in Terentii Andriam et Eunuchum

calf gilt Svo. Sjec. xvii. on paper

An interesting and unpublished work of this celebrated scholar.

777 Perizonii (J.) Dictata in Suetonium, vellum 4tto. S^ec. xviii. on paper

Unpublished.

778 Perizonii (J.) Dictata in Suetonium Mo. S^ec. xviii. on paper

779 Persian Miscellany, consisting of The Mizan, an Arabic Primer, in

Persian, anonymous, but supposed to be by Shaikh Sa'di of Shiraz ;
this copy was written by Munshi 'Ittisam-al-Din, of Bajnore in
Bengal, whilst on a visit to England during the reign of George III,
Anno HegiraB 1180 (a.d. 1765-6) — The Munsha'ah, An Arabic
Grammar, also in Persian, by the Author of the Mizan, and written
by the above dexterous scribe in the same year — Risalah dar Bayan-
i-Zaban-i-FarsI, An Essay on the Persian Language, by the same pen-
man— A Rhyming Dictionary of Hindi words — Miscellaneous
Notes on Quickness of Intellect, Talent, Penetration, &c. ; also,
Arabic, Turkish and Persian Numerical Figures, with an Almanac,
&c. — The Story of the Kazi of Baghdad, and the Thief — The
DASTUR-al-'Amal-i-Akbar Shah, The Rules of King Akbar Shah,
extracted from the Correspondence of Abu-al-Eaizi — Letter from
H. M. the Shah of Persia, to H. M. George III. — Letter
from the Nawab Mir Muhammad Ja'ffir Khan to Lord Clive,
while in England — Letter from H. R. H. Prince 'All Gohar to
Lord Clive, while Governor- General of India, no date — 'Arzi (or
Statement) of Col. Clive in reply to H. R. H. the Mirza 'All Gohar
— A Recipe for making Indian Ink — Remarks on the Manners,
Customs and Ideas of Englishmen and Mohammedans — Poems,
Miscellaneous — A eew English Sentences, in Persian characters,
with their Meanings in Persian — Eulogium on England by
the copyist himself—- The Munshi' s ('lttisam-al-Din) own Ac-
count of himself — An Essay on the impropriety of making the
Munshis and Dlwans stand up in the presence of their European
superiors in India, the Author pointing out the origin of the Custom,
and complaining of the same treatment towards himself while a
sojourner in Great Britain (a.d. 1765-6) — An Eulogy by the Ama-
nuensis (the said Munshi) himself on H. M. George III, with
an Account of his own Travels, in Persian verse
hound folio. S-EC. xviii. on paper

A very interesting collection, in a beautiful Nasta'lik character, containing curious
documents and a very entertaining Oriental autobiography, in which England
and English manners, of the last century, are described by an Oriental eye-
witness.

780 Persii Elacci (Auli) Satire cum Glossis. — Commentaries perye-

tustus in Satiras Persii Svo. S^ec. x. on vellum

This ancient and valuable manuscript formerly belonged to the famous Apostolo
Zeno, and has his book-plate, with the title " Persii Satyrse " in his hand-
writing. It affords many valuable readings, and confirms many of the
conjectural emendations of Kcenig. For instance, Sat. V. 19, this manu-
script reads bullatis, as adopted by him, although Casaubon asserts that
every manuscript exhibits pullatis. The gloss written over is " bulla vestis
injlata" As a specimen of the text of this manuscript, we select from

THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS. 173

Satire I, lines 8 to 12, placing Koenig's text (of the Valpy Collection) in the
parallel column :

Manuscript. Edition.

"Nam Romse est quis non? at si fas "Nam Romse quis non ? ah si fas dicere !

dicere: sed fas sed fas

Tunc cum ad canitiem et nostrum Tunc, cum ad canitiem et nostrum

istud vivere triste istud vivere tristi

Axpexi ac nucibus facimus quascum- Aspexi et nucibns facimus qusecunque

que relictis relictis ;

Cum sapimus patruos tunc tunc igno- Cum sapimus patruos : tunc, tunc igno-

scere nolo scite. Nolo

Quid faciam sed sum petulanti splene Quid faciam? Sed sum petulanti

cachinno splene cachinno.

We have purposely selected this difficult passage, because Koenig points it out
as minime sa?ius, and proposes to read " Nam Romse quis non? at qui fas
dicere? Qui fas? Tunc cum ad canitiem et nostrum id vivere triste
Aspexi, et nucibus facimus qusecumque relictis? Cum sapimus patruos?
Et hinc ignoscere nolo. Quid faciam? sed sum petulanti splene cachinno."
This manuscript consists of 40 leaves, written in a small Carlovingian
character. The first 18 leaves contain the Satyrse, with many marginal
and interlineary glosses of the same time, in minute characters ; and the
subsequent 22 (written also at the same period, but by a different scribe)
contain a portion of the author's life, and a commentary of great importance,
quite different from and much larger than that which that great scholar,
Pithou, published in 1585 from a celebrated manuscript now in the library
of Montpellier. Neither this last manuscript, nor any of the manuscripts
of Persius, which are described in the great " Catalogus Bibliothecse Regiae
Parisiensis," are to be preferred to the present one, which would afford
much information to a new commentator on this extremely difficult author.
On the 18th leaf, after the end of Persius, there is the divisio of the Roman
Libra in semis, deunx, dodrans, &c. with Roman numerical characters, and
those curious signs which were used by the Romans to express some frac-
tional numbers, and which are of very rare occurrence in manuscripts,
especially of so early -a period. The Notce used in this manuscript totally
differ from those which Bede and Alibaldus used for the same purpose, and
which are published by Gothofredus in his Auctores Ungual Latino?. The fly-
leaves contain some hymns, with ancient musical notes. (See facsimile.)

781 Peressiis (Loys de, " Escuyer de Coumons, Vassal de N. S. P. le Pape

et Chevalier de son Ordre ") Le Tiers Discours des Guerres ou
Troubles de ce Temps (1564-1572), calf 4<to. S^ec. xvi. on paper

A very important autograph unpublished Manuscript, relating to the history
of France and Corsica, including the wars on account of the Re-
formation. It is believed that this volume formerly belonged to the cele-
brated Peiresc Collection. The first portion only of this work, relating the
"Guerres entre les Catholiques et ceux qui se disent Huguenots jusqu'en
1562," was published in 1563, as may be seen in the Bibliographic de la
France, by M. Girault de St. Fargeau.

782 Peshawar, Kohistiin and the Panjab. A statistical Account of these

countries in Persian Mo. S^ec. xix. on paper

This work, which contains interesting information concerning those countries,
seems quite unknoAvn.

783 Petavii (Dionysii) Commentarii in Jobum et Oseam

4<to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

An autograph unpublished manuscript (consisting of thirteen quires) of that emi-
nent Jesuit Denys Petau, one of the most learned men of his time, and
who preferred his humble cell at the College of Clermont to the Cardinal's
purple in which Urban VIII. was eager to array him. His erudition was
immense, and his language so pure, that Oudin considers him a second
Cicero.

174 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

784 Petrarca (Francesco) Rime. — Canconi distese del chiarissimo
Poeta Dante Allighieri di Firenze
morocco extra, gilt edges folio. Sjec. xiv. on vellum

a magnificent volume and one of the most important manuscripts of
the two Poets ever offered for sale, written during the life-time of
Petrarch, or immediately after his death, for Lorenzo the son of Carlo degli
Strozzi (a member of one of the noblest families of Florence), by Paul the
Scribe, as appears by the colophon : Gratissimi spetiosique hujus voluminis
adepto fiet Laus sit et Gloria Deo qui Laurentio Karoli de Strocgis qui ipsum
fieri fecit Pauloque Scriptori ejusdem felicem tribuat vitam per tempora longiora.
Amen.'''' This superb volume is adorned with large initial letters, and
three elegantly illuminated borders, containing portraits of the Poets and their
Inamoratas, executed in the finest style of Florentine art at that period,
with the arms of the Strozzi emblazoned in the bottom compartment of the
first two. The purity of the text and the various readings, must ever
render this beautiful specimen of Trecento art and caligraphy an ornament
even to the finest library. M. De Witte, (a copy of whose "Nuove Correzioni
al Convito di Dante Alligliieri proposte da Carlo de Witte, Acad. Corrisp. delta
Crusca" partly taken from this manuscript, will be sold with this lot), a most
eminent judge of everything connected with Dante and his writings, highly
appreciates in his work (of which only 150 copies were printed for private
distribution,), this splendid manuscript, for which the present owner
gave one hundred and fifty pounds. It is well-known that the manuscripts
of this great Florentine family were brought into France by the Marshal
Strozzi, during his exile thither, and that, having been unjustly seized by
order of Queen Catherine de Medicis, they were afterwards incorpores (as
we read in the Essai, by Le Prince, p. 38) into the Royal Library at Paris,
of which they now form one of the principal ornaments. This manuscript
fortunately remained in Italy among the treasures of the family, and (as is
stated by M. de Witte) was obtained some years ago by M. Weigel of Leipzig,
who, for a long time, declined parting with it. Concerning Lorenzo degli
Strozzi and that great family, see the grand work of Litta, famiglie celebri
Italiane, (fascicolo xliv).

At the beginning of this note we stated that this manuscript was written
during the life-time of Petrarch, or immediately after his death, which
occurred in 1374. M. de Witte in his Nuove Correzioni says what is equiva-
lent to the same thing, as he states that this volume was written sul declinare
of the fourteenth century, and the matter may be even more strictly
ascertained by means of the following remarks.

From the colophon in which Laurentius de Strozzis is called Filius Karoli
without the quondam, the Beatce Memorial, or any other formula to the
same effect, which, no doubt, would have been used at that time in Italy, if
Karolus was dead when that colophon was written, it is clear that he
was still alive at that moment; and as this celebrated Florentine
died at a very advanced age in 1383, the volume was written before
that time, but how long it is difficult to ascertain. All we can say is, that
Lorenzo (for whom this volume was written) had five sisters, who, as early
as the year 1331, were all nuns in the Monastery of St. Dominic at Florence
(See Litta, loco citato), and no doubt he had arrived at the age of manhood
and was quite able to collect fine books long before the year 1383.

Good Manuscripts of the Divina Commedia of Dante are of
considerable rarity, but to obtain an ancient and good one of
the Canzoni is almost hopeless. The Rime of Petrarca contained
in this volume are also finely written and beautifully illuminated by the
same artist who copied the Canzoni di Dante. The two here in con •
junction render the present manuscript a perfect gem. (See
facsimile.)

7S5 Petrarcha (Francesco) Trionfi, Sonetti e Canzoni,

olive morocco, super extra, gilt gaufre edges, sides covered with gold
tooling folio. S.ec. xv. on vellum

This magnificent Manuscript, exhibiting a beautiful specimen of Italian Cali-
graphy, has the first title page in gold and blue, within an elegant wreath,

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 175

upheld by Cupids. The first page of the Trionfi is adorned with a large
miniature capital, shewing Petrarch dreaming, and an angel or diable boitenx
in attendance. This page is surrounded by an exquisitely illuminated border,
formed of portraits, cupids, birds, insects, flowers, &c, with the arms of an
ancient Italian family in the centre of the lower margin. A very similar
border adorns the first page of the Sonetti, having a miniature portrait of
Petrarch in the initial letter. There are also throughout the manuscript
numerous capital letters illuminated in gold and colours, and the various
titles are also in gold and colours. No finer or more costly manu-
script of Petrarch than this has ever been offered in a public sale, for
it is not only valuable for the fine penmanship, the illuminations, and
the whiteness of the Italian vellum, but also for the text, which is remark-
ably pure. Under the elegant garland, on the reverse of the first leaf,
there was formerly the name of an ancient owner, which, although defaced
is still legible and shows that this volume belonged to the Abate Ugkelli,
who, two centuries ago, published the celebrated work, entitled " Italia
Sacra." (See facsimile. J

786 Peteaeca (F.) Teiokfi. — Feakcisci Peteaece Floeektiki Poete

Laueeati Teitjmphi ikcipiukt Mo. SiEC xv. ok tellum

A beautiful specimen of Italian Caligraphy, with capital letters richly illumi-
nated in gold and colours. Prefixed as a frontispiece is a very elegant
illumination in colours, and at the bottom of the first page is another
coloured drawing, containing Petrarch seated and shaking hands with
Laura. On the margins of the last two Trionfi will be found four elegant
illuminations, one of which represents two minstrels playing on the
clarionet. The illuminations contained in this volume are in a style totally
different from the drawings which sometimes embellish the manuscripts of
Petrarch. The first page, containing thirteen whole-length figures of authors
(with books in their hands) and young monks, is painted in the finest style,
and the words in (en) atendant and via?n invenient (which very probably
were the mottoes of the two parties here represented), in connection with
other things, induces us to suspect that all these are portraits of some
illustrious Venetian family, made during the fifteenth century, as the
costumes are quite early Italian, and chiefly Venetian. (See facsimile.)

787 Peteaeca (Francesco) Rime Mo. Sjec. xiv. ok papee

This very valuable manuscript formerly belonged to the celebrated Apostolo Zeno,
and has his book-plate. The first leaf seems to have been traced over with
fresh ink, probably because it was faded. The text is very good, as might
naturally be presumed to be the case in a manuscript of this great poet
which had formerly been in the possession of so elegant a critic as
Apostolo Zeno. Compared with the best editions it offers some good
various readings.

788 Peteaeca (Francesco) Rime col Comento folio. SiEC. xv. ok papee

The beginning and end (only a few pages) of this valuable manuscript are
wanting. The text is good although the scribe (who very probably was
from the northern part of Italy) has mis-spelt several words. One fact
worthy of attention is that, in the various manuscripts, the sonnets and
canzoni of Petrarch are generally arranged in quite a different order from
that observed in the printed editions.

789 Peteaeca (F.) Trionfi Mo. SiEC. xv. ok papee

At the end there are two Italian poems in oftava rima on religious subjects.

790 Peteaech^; (Francisci) Epistol^e, in the original binding

Mo. S.EC. XV. OK PAPEE AKD YELLUM

Written in an old legible hand, with illuminated capitals, that to the letter
addressed to Andreas Dandulo, in gold and colours on vellum. This impor-
tant manuscript contains no less than 69 letters apparently unpublished,
as none of them are to be found amongst the printed epistolce in the edition
of Geneva, 1601. Many of the various readings of this codex are most

176 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

important, and the heading of the contents prefixed to each letter is totally
different from that printed. Another great value this manuscript must
possess for the author's biography, is that each letter has the date of its com-
position, and the place where written, by the omission of which the printed
editions are rendered of little or no authority in detailing facts relative to
Petrarch's life. In several instances also, letters which were erroneously
printed as making a single one, are in this manuscript, divided into two and
three, having the proper addresses of the various persons to whom they were
sent. It is a well known fact that many of the epistles of Petrarch, so
important for the literary and political history of Italy during the XlVth
century, were never printed, and we do not think that any future editor of
these letters would find a manuscript more rich in unpublished corre-
spondence than the present.

791 Petrarca (Francesco) Vite degli Uomini famosi

folio. SiEC. XV. ON VELLUM AND PAPER

Written in a very distinct Italian hand. The first page is adorned with an
initial and an elegant border {composed of boys playing, birds and butterflies)
tastefully painted in gold and colours. The Poems of Petrarch are uni-
versally read, but his letters and his historical works, both so worthy of
perusal, are almost unknown even to the warmest admirers of his Sonetti.
These Vite, consisting of several hundred folio pages, were written by a man
who, as we are informed, was in possession of classical Latin works, since
lost, and deserve special attention, the more so as they have been very seldom
and very badly printed. This work, written in old Italian, was quoted by
the Crusca Academy from ancient manuscripts only, which are, however,
exceedingly scarce. None are quoted by Marsand, and three only are in
the great catalogue of Bandini, who attributes this translation to Donato
de Albansanis, who lived in the XlVth century. From the quotations
given by Bandini we find that one at least of the three Medicean manu-
scripts was defective, as probably it did not contain the life of Trajan, the
last hi this manuscript, following the life of Titus, which is the last
amongst those mentioned by Bandini. We suspect, however, the first
of the three manuscripts to have been complete, as it ends like the present
one, and that it was only the deficiency of the last rubric " Di Vulpio
Trajano imperatore romano," which induced Bandini to omit the mention
of this last life. The text of this manuscript is excellent and would greatly
improve a new edition. Respecting Petrarca see also Nos. 630, 689, 860,
867, 930, etc. in the present Catalogue.

792 Petri Blessensis (Bathoniensis Archi-Diaconi) Epistol^;

4ito. SiEC. xii.-xiii. on velltjm

Written hi a very minute character by an English scribe. These letters were
collected by Peter de Blois himself, as is apparent from the dedicatory
epistle prefixed, at the request of Henry II, who died in 1189. They are
addressed to popes, kings, and the most eminent persons, civil and eccle-
siastical, and are mostly on important subjects, especially those written
when the author was Secretary to King Henry II, or while he was
acting in a similar capacity to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Peter
of Blois, firstly Archdeacon of Bath and afterwards Archdeacon of Lon-
don, was undoubtedly one of the most learned men of his time, having
successfully distinguished himself in all the arts and sciences that could
in his age be studied. As a Avhole these Epistolai form one of the most
important historical documents that have reached us respecting the eventful
reign of Henry II. Compared with the edition given by Mr. Giles, this
manuscript, which does not contain the doubtful letters, offers some various
readings. On the third leaf of this manuscript there is a very curious in-
ventory of silver gilt cups, dishes, pots, etc. (cuppse, platelli, poti, etc.)
written in the Xlllth century in England, with their weight, and the price in
sterling, etc.; commencing "Jo. de Magno Pont e habet cupam cum oper-
culo deaurato et cifum aureum et XXV coclearia argentea," &c. (See
facsimile).

THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS. 177

793 Pfaldoree de Ingolstat (Nicolai) Kalendarium fur 1471,
in the original binding with clasps, bosses, and corners

4it0. SiEC. XV. (1471) ON PAPER

A very curious manuscript, which, besides the usual names of saints, has on the
page opposite to each month directions for the same, commencing with a
Quatrain, but written like prose. January commences thus : —

" Jenner pin ich genantt
Trinken unci essen ist mir wol bekant
In disem monad ist nit gut
Von dem menschen lassenn plut."

It is adorned with nine curious illuminations representing the Employments
for the various Months, excepting June, November and December. Besides
this Kalendarium, the volume contains : " Von den zwolf Zaichen," with
twelve coloured drawings of the Signs of the Zodiac; " von den siben Planeten
wye sagt der Maister Bartholomeus" (interspersed with poetical descriptions
by Pfaldorff), with twelve other drawings of the Signs of the Zodiac ; " und
von den vier Complexion ; von Blutlassen, &c. &c. ; Aristotelis Brief am
Kunig Alexander," followed by a long Poem by Pfaldorff, commencing :

" Der edel Kunig Allexander
An manhayt der annder."

This is a most valuable manuscript for the Philologist also, being written
in the pure Saxon afterwards adopted by Luther for his Version of the
Bible, and since called Hoch-Teutsch, to distinguish it from the Piatt or
Low German Dialect. The colophon gives the name of the author and
date, thus : " Finitum est per Nicolaum Pfaldorff de Ingolstat tunc
tempore astans in Rozano sub Anno Domini, 1471." After this, written
also by Pfaldorff, follow a Latin Kalendarium for the year 1439, with several
astronomical tables ; his own German translation of the Lucidarius (a Dia-
logue between the Master and his Pupil respecting the Creation, the
Wonders of the Globe, the Day of Judgment, &c), and Samuel, the
Israelite's Epistle against the unbelieving Jews, rendered into German by
" Mayster Wimbrecht zu Strasgang Pfar der Stat," concluding with Deo
gracias 1471. The manuscript is full of astronomical tables, the whole of
them with Arabic numerals, &c. The Lucidarius, or Elucidarius, was one
of the most popular works in the German language, but, although printed
at least a dozen times between the years 1479 and 1514, the name of its
translator has hitherto been totally unknown. We could not find any men-
tion of Nicolaus Pfaldorff either in Lalande, Montucla, or Delambre.

794 Phalaridis Epistolarum Libri, Latine

half russia 4<to. Smc. xv. partly on vellum and on paper

In the printed editions, this version and its Prohemium are attributed to Fran-
ciscus Aretinus (Francesco Accolti d'Arezzo). This manuscript com-
mences, however: "Joannis Aretini Viri doctissimi Phalaridis Tyranni
Agrigentini Epistolarum ad Illustrem Principem Malatestam Novellum
. Prohemium foeliciter Incipit." If this heading is correct, the translation
must have been made by the celebrated Greek scholar Johannes Tortellius,
also a native of Arezzo, who on his return from Greece became a brilliant
ornament at the court of Pope Eugene IV, and wrote a Treatise " de Ortho-
graphia."

795 Phalaridis Epistolae per Eranciscum Aretinum e Graeco in Latinum

traductae — Diogenis Epistolae — Mitridatis Collectio Epistolarum
— Platonis Epistolae Leonardo Aretino interprete — C^esaris
Orationes et Epistolae ex Dione traductae a Lauro Quirino — Simaciii
Praefecti Urbis liomae Relatio 4fo. Si£C. xv. on paper

A curious collection. No such work as the Relatio Romm is to be found men-
tioned either in Tiraboschi or elsewhere as written by Symmachus.

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178 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

796 Philips (Giovanni) il Sidro Poema in due Canti tradotto e con Note

illustrato dal Conte Lorenzo Magalotti folio. S^ec. xviii. on paper

A metrical translation, by the celebrated Count L. Magalotti, from the well-
known Poem on Cyder, by John Philips, Milton's nephew. As we have
already stated (see Nos. 634-637), this and other Magalotti manuscripts in
this catalogue, are in the well-known hand-writing of his secretary,
with here and there autograph annotations and alterations of the author
himself.

797 Piero chiamato da Lucha (Lucca) " Canonico Regulare," Opusculo

di trenta Documenti per le Persone che desiderano essere spirituali.
Et doctrina del ben morire con molte utili resolutioni de alchuni
belli Dubii Teologici, &c. (1518) X2mo. S^ec. xvi. on paper

Written in a beautiful round hand. At the end there is an u Opera nova chia-
mata Luce di Fede."

798 Pietra (Coronel D. Joseph, " Commissario Provincial") Yisita general

que de Real Orden se practico a la Artilleria de los Lictorales de las
Torres y Universidades que circondan el Reyno de Sicilia
calf, gilt edges folio. 1758, ON paper

The Official Eeport, consisting of about 100 leaves, with the autograph signature
of Colonel Pietra, dated "Palermo, 26 de Julio, del 1758. "

799 Pn II. iEneae Silvii (postea Pii II.) Historia de duobus Amantibus

Euryalo et Lucretia ad Marianum Socinum
in the original binding folio. S^:c. xv. ON paper

The end is wanting.

800 Pindari OdvE, Graece, vellum, gilt edges VLmo. S^ec. xvi. on paper

An elegant little manuscript, very finely written, containing an excellent text.
There is at the beginning a note in the handwriting of the celebrated
President Bouhier, of whose magnificent collection of manuscripts this formed
no mean item.

801 Pio di Savoia (Marehese Ascanio) Avvertimenti (in versi) all Illmo

et Eccrao P. D. Carlo Pio suo Eigliolo

4to. S,ec xvii. (1632) on paper

Quadrio mentions this Ferrarese Poet as flourishing circa 1630, and dying 7 Oct.
1649. This volume, containing 499 Poetical Admonitions to his son, is, in
all probability, in the author's autograph, and does not appear to have been
printed. If they were known, these Avvertimenti would place the author
amongst the best moral poets of Italy.

802 Pissini (D. Andrea, "di Lucca") "Monaco Olivetano" Discorso filosofico

sopra le Comete Mo. 1665, on paper

An autograph unpublished manuscript, completely prepared for the press, with the
author's dedication signed and dated Ascoli, 1665. This work is interesting
as rejecting the old prevalent superstition that comets announced disasters.

803 Planometria, or the Art of measuring or surveying Land, plainly

discovering the Grounds thereof to the meanest capacity
with diagrams 8vo. S^ec. xvii. on paper.

804 Platonis Tim^eits Interprete Chalcidio, cum ejusdem Commentario

SVO. SiEC. xii. ON YELLTJM.

A curious manuscript, with mathematical diagrams. This old translation of the
Timseus was effected by the celebrated philosopher Chalcidius, who,
according to Fabricius, lived in the fourth century, and translated that
work for Osius, Bishop of Cordova. The mathematical figures, which occur
in this manuscript, were omitted by Meursius in his edition, to the great
regret of Fabricius. This manuscript would supply many interesting
various readings for a new edition. (See facsimile.)

THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS. 179

805 Platonis Phaedo (de animorum Immortal itate) e G-rseco in Latinum

translatus per Leonardum Aretinum — Ejusdem Axiochus (de Morte)
cum Prohemio Itinucii — Ejusdem Epistolae Leonardo Aretino inter-
prete — Censorious de Die Natali et alia Opitscula
in the original oak boards 4do. S^ec. xv. (1469) on paper

This extremely valuable manuscript has, on the cover, the autograph of the cele-
brated Strasburg Printer Mentel " Joms Mendel," who, about the year
1470, printed Leonardo Aretino's version of Aristotle. At the end of the
Phaedo is written " Anno 1469." Nothing is more unusual than to find a
manuscript of Censorinus, a Latin author, who wrote about the year 240, and
whose work is very important for the history of the mathematical sciences
amongst the ancients. Respecting the extreme rarity of manuscripts of
Censorinus, it will suffice to say that none are quoted by Hsenel, that none
are mentioned in the great printed " Catalogus Bibl. Itegiae Parisiensis," none
in the Catalogue of the Medicean Library at Florence ; and that, although
a manuscript is mentioned in the index of the Catalogue of the " Biblio-
theca Leopoldino-Laurentiana," by Bandini, nothing of the kind is to
be found at the place referred to (namely, vol. II, p. 47G). Although
placed in the index, in all probability it was so only by mistake. Accord-
to Endlicher {Catal. p. 260) a single chapter of Censorinus is amongst the
manuscripts of the Imperial Library at Vienna. What, however, is even
more significant of extreme rarity is the fact that, in his immense Catalogue,
called Bibliotheca Biblioihecarum, Montfaucon has only a single manuscript
of Censorinus. Besides the work De Die Natali this manuscript contains
also the highly interesting scientific works " De Naturali Institutione, de
Stellis, de Geometrica, de Musica, etc." sometimes assigned to Censorinus
in the old editions, but attributed Auctori incerto, by Havercamp, in his
edition Lugd. Batav. 1743, in 8vo). It contains also the Treatise De Metris,
which, as well as the former, Putschius considers to be by Censorinus. It
is not only on account of the scarcity of the manuscript of Censorinus that
the present volume is so highly valuable, but it is even more so for the
interesting various readings it contains. For instance, in this manuscript,
the work De Die Natali is divided into various chapters, headed by proper
titles which are not in the printed editions, and the division of the chap-
ters is often different from that of the editions, and generally much more
appropriate to the subject. {See facsimile).

806 Plinii Secundi Veronensis Liber illustrium Virorum et Epis-

tolartjm Liber VIII, in the original old Venetian morocco, with
impressions, gilt edges folio. S^ec. xv. (1466) on vellum

This exquisite manuscript, written in 1466 on 130 leaves of very pure vellum,
has the Capitals to each of the Books richly illuminated and heightened
with burnished gold. The first page of the " Liber illustrium Virorum "
(falsely, in early manuscripts, attributed to Pliny, instead of the real author,
Aurelius Victor) is surrounded by a very elegant border, having at the
bottom two naked Cupids supporting a gold ring round a blank left for the
insertion of a coat of arms. The following colophon concludes this splendid
volume: "absolutumflorentie hoc opus anno incarnationis Christi, cccc.lx.vi.
supra Mille, Xvi. vero k'l. Februarii. TeAoo-." This manuscript, in the best
Florentine Medicean style, was no doubt transcribed from an older manu-
script, as it exhibits considerable differences from the editions : for instance,
the Epistolw are here divided into eight books instead of ten, and several of
the names of the persons to whom the younger Pliny wrote, are also
often different. At the beginning there is a tract : "De duobus Pliniis . . .
per Ioh. Mansionarium veronensem," which according to Maffei {Verona
lllustrata, part II, col. 130) is unpublished.

807 Plinius. Ex C. Plinto Secundo Comentarium

folio. S.EC. XV. ON PAPER

These large extracts from Pliny's Natural History consist of sixty-four leaves
finely written. The text is excellent, and is certainly in the handwriting of the

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180 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

celebrated Hermolaus Barbarus, as will be ascertained by comparing
it with the autograph letters of the same author (see No. 1084 in the
present Catalogue), who published during the fifteenth century so important
a work on Pliny. Manuscripts of the great work of Pliny are very scarce.

(See facsimile.)

80S Pltjtarchi Apophfcegmata Latine cum Prsefatione Francisci Philelphi
ad magnanimum et illustrissimum Principem Philippum Mariam
Anglum inclitum Mediolanensiuin Ducem
original binding 8vo. SvEC. xv. (1456) ON vellum

A very elegant manuscript on 86 leaves of pure Italian vellum, having the
initial letter and a coat of arms, both in arabesque borders, richly illumi-
nated. At the end is the date when written, " Anno Dom. MCCCCLVT, Die
sexta Januarii." In the Medicean Library of Florence, there is a manuscript
in which this same translation appears, but anonymous.

809 Pcenitentlze Modus sive Tractatus de Modo Poenitendi metrice con-

scriptus cum Commentario et Glossis 8vo. S^ec. xv. on paper

This curious Poem commences : " Peniteas cito peccator, cum sit miserator
Judex Et sunt hsec quique tenenda tibi," and therefore it cannot be the Poem
of Vergundus on the same object, as that, according to Fabricius, opens
with " Quis mini moesta," &c.

810 Poesias Espanoles 4<fo. S^c. xvii. ON PAPER
A Collection of Romances, Loas, Sonetos, Letrillas, Satiras, Canciones, &c.

with an Index, apparently in the autograph of the author of " La Comedia de
el Desengano de Amor, ano de 1614," or at least with autograph annota-
tions and corrections by him. There are several Acrostics to Eufrasia,
Maria, Doiia Ynes, &c. &c.

811 Poesie e Prose Italiane, del Cinque-Cento, la maggior Parte

INEDITE folio. BMC. XVI. ON PAPER

A Collection of unpublished poetry in the Autographs of the authors, chiefly
by, or addressed to Gio. Geronimo Acquaviva, Duca dAtri, himself a
poet of no mean reputation. Amongst these verses are original poems by
" El Capitan Poeta Marcantonio, B. liota, Giovanni della Casa, Coppetta,
Scipione Ammirato, Eusebio Statiera, Muscettola " (who, from one of the
poems, appears to have been the Secretary of the Academy del Lauro),
Cambi, and several others of the most celebrated Italian poets of the six-
teenth century. Tiraboschi and Mazzuchelli speak at length of the literary
merit of several members of the illustrious Neapolitan family of Acquaviva,
and of the protection given by them to the most learned men of the sixteenth
century. Belisario Acquaviva established at Nardo, a provincial town
in the kingdom of Naples, an Academy called Del Lauro, which was cele-
brated by Sannazaro, and this volume contains a great variety of compo-
sitions addressed to the same Academy, in the time of Giovanni Geronimo
Acquaviva (Duke of Atri) nephew of the founder. The volume contains
also several prose essays on scientific and historical subjects by the Duke
himself, read, no doubt, at the meetings of the Academy. The names of
the different authors, when they are not written by the author himself at
the bottom of the paper, are often written in a cotemporary hand, probably
by the Secretary of the Academy. From the handwriting, it appears
that several of these poems are in the Autograph of Bernardo Tasso,
father of the great Torquato, and a poet of great celebrity himself.
These original papers, written by celebrated men belonging to an Academy
which has been extinct for nearly three centuries, are most interesting.

812 Poesie Italiane— Nella Nascita di Christo Affetti di un Pastore —

Paraerasi di unaParita di Statio — Rinaldo piu fortunato in Patria o
Glorioso che fuori — La Luce alia S. B. M. di Christina Begiua di
Suezia Canzone di Gio. Michel Milani, 1685 — Sonetti — Ode
vellum 4<to. SvEC. xvii. on paper.

Some of these pieces are in the Neapolitan Dialect. The Canzone of Milani is a
philosophical poem of 83 stanzas, with an introduction, showing that the

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author considered the light of the sun as the cause of the motion of the
planets. At the end, however, he says that the earth cannot move because
the church forbids such belief.

813 Poesie inedite di vari Sogetti raccolte dal Cavaliere Tommaso Giuseppe

Earsetti Mo. S^ec. xviii.

Containing unpublished Poems by G. Patriarchi, T. G. Farsetti, Carlo Gozzi,
P. Balbi, &c. &c, and even some ancient Latin poems copied from old
manuscripts. This Transcript (as will be seen at the end) is in the fine
handwriting of D. Farsetti, the well-known Venetian author of the History
of the Accademia dei Granelleschi. Tommaso Farsetti was the collector of
a celebrated library.

814 Poesie. La moderna Astrologia per sapere il vero di molti curiosi e

dilettevoli Quesiti per Trastullo delle Veglie con la Raccolta di vari
Sonetti ed altre Composizioni
vellum 4ito. Sjec. xviii. ok paper

This is an imitation of the well known poem of Spirit®, called Le Sorti. The
volume (written about a century ago) contains a great number of curious
poems, such as the Enimmi, la Dulcanea, &c. amongst which is worth men-
tioning a moral poem in two cantos by a lady of Siena (A. Caterina Piccolini)
called avvertimenti to her son.

815 Poesie diverse de piu celebri Autori di questo Secolo raccolte dal Mar-

chese Eederico Eerreri mdccxxx. vellum Mo. S^ec xviii. ok paper

A valuable Collection of Sonnets and other lyric Poems, chiefly inedited, as
many of them are of the most free and satirical character against the
Jesuits, etc. A great portion of these poems are in various dialects, chiefly
Milanese. One of the most curious is a Ceremoniale (a poetical dialogue,
in Milanese and Italian), between a new confessor and several nuns.

816 Poetje. De Italis Jurisconsultis Poetis Exercitatio

folio. S^c. xviii. ok paper
This curious work written about 1750, contains much information relative to the
Italian Jurists of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and chiefly con-
cerning such of them as (including the Poet's son) have made commentaries
upon Dante.

817 Poetica. Prooemales Quaestiones in universam Poetices Eacultatem et

Tractatus de Parvis Grandioribusque Poematibus

8vo. Sjec. xvii. ok paper

818 Poetica. De Versibus Italo-Latinis — De versibus chronologicis — De

versibus decussatis — De Elogio ingenioso conscribendo Artificium
cum Praxi Dispositionis Oratoriae et Modo facili texendi Versus —
Arte del Verso Italiano Mo. (1672) ok paper

This manuscript, partly in the autograph of the unknown author, and partly
with his autograph corrections, contains many curiosa relating to poetry.
The rules for making verses Italo-Latini are very interesting. Here
is an instance of the beginning of a poem written in such verses, which are
at the same time in the Latin and Italian language, as it is exhibited
in this manuscript :

" Canta metro dolente
Oppressa tua virtute arnica Lyra
Fremendo egra respira
Inflebile tenore aura nocente, etc."

819 Pompeii Eesti. Excerpta feliciter expt. per me terentium treciensem

Mo. S^ec. xv. ok paper

Pompeius Festus is one of the most important of the Latin Grammatici,
whose abridgement of the great work of Verrius Flaccus " de Verborum
Signification " was in its turn abridged by Paulus Diaconus. It is well
known that the original work by Verrius Flaccus was partially lost, as

182 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

was also the abridgment of it by Pompeius Festus. The present is the
third abridgment made by the celebrated Paulus Diaconus during the
Vlllth century, and dedicated by him to Charlemagne. Manuscripts of
this work are very scarce.

820 Pons de Ycart (Luis) Libro de las Grandezas y Cosas memorables de

la Metropolitana insigne y famosa Ciudad de Tarragona Impreso en
Lerida, 1572, transcript of the printed work

4ito. SiEC. xviii. on paper

821 Pontano (Jo.) Lettere per diversi Signori (transcript from the Letter-

Booh preserved in the Archives of Naples)

4ito. Sjec. xvi.-xvii. on paper

These letters of the celebrated Pontanus are highly interesting, not only
because no Italian1 work of this celebrated man is known, but also
because they relate to the most important and confidential political matters
of Italy during the last period of the XVth century. Most of them are
addressed to king Ferdinand of Naples and his successors. The Italian of
these letters is curiously mixed with much Neapolitan dialect ; they are
written with great freedom, and some are even sarcastic. A letter dated
May 7, 1490, (in which Pontanus states that it was his birthday) contains
a curious complaint against the king who had treated him ill on that day,
and (as he facetiously states) given him a pill. We did not find any
mention of these curious letters in the Archivio Stoi^ico Italiano, or else-
where.

822 Poreirii Ysaguoge ad Categorias Aristotelis — Aristotelis Prsedica-

menta et Liber Peryasmenias — Boecii Divisiones

4itO. S.EC. xiv. ON VELLUM

The front fly-leaves are portions of grammatical treatises, one being a very
early Latin and Italian Vocabulary ; those at the end contain a fragment
of 100 lines from Book II. of Virgil's iEneid, commencing with line
183, containing the story of Laocoon, and the triumphal entrance of the
Wooden Horse into Troy. The manuscript contains a great number of
ancient glosses by different hands.

823 Porta (Giovan Battista) dell' Humana Phisionomia Libri IV.

folio. 1588, ON PAPER

On the margin of the first leaf is written : " Cominciato a tradurre li 21 di
Luglio, finito li 13 di Agosto, 1588." This manuscript is undoubtedly in the
autograph of Porta himself, who published in 1586, at Sorrento (Vico
Aquense), the original Latin work, and then (as is well known) translated
it himself into Italian. This is the original manuscript of his translation,
with several improvements and alterations.

824 Porta (G-. B. della) Delia Taumatologia ; La Criptologia Delia Calamita

(in Italiano) ; Item de Naturali Chironomia Latin e

folio. S.EC. XIX. ON PAPER

These interesting works written by the celebrated author of the Magia Naturalis
are unpublished. The treatise Delia Calamita is very important. At the
end there is an interesting letter, written by G. B. Longo, in 1635, and
containing a biographical account of G. B. Della Porta, and his two learned
brothers. This manuscript was copied from the manuscript 169 of the
Bibliotheque de VEcole de Medecine de Montpellier. This volume consists of
208 pages, and all the works which it contains are unpublished.

825 PORTULANO E MAPPAMONDO

4to. Sjec. xv.? xvi., and xvii., on vellum

The Mappamondo at the beginning, containing both hemispheres, with American
Terrse Incognita (Australia), &c, is on card-board. It contains New Guinea,
but not the Maire Straits, and seems to have been executed about the
middle of the sixteenth century. The other maps, elegantly executed on

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vellum in gold and various colours, contain only the Mediterranean and
Black Sea, with a portion of the Western African Coast, quite in the
style of the celebrated Benincasa maps. On the last map but one there
is the following inscription : — " Iouanne Oliva e Iouan Batta Cauallini in
Livorno Ailo," to which a date (probably 1636) was affixed. This was sub-
sequently altered to 1536 by some party wishing to make the maps appear
a century older, at the same time adding the word fecero. As the word
fecero is certainly a modern addition, the inscription can only refer to the
ownership, and not at all to the hydrographer, who must certainly have
lived during the fifteenth century, and previous to the discovery of
America, and in all probability was none other than the celebrated
Grazioso Benincasa Anconitano himself. Respecting this celebrated cos-
mographer, see the well-known works of Viscount Santarem, M. Lelewell,
and Formaleoni£>«s\s/m. We could not find any mention of Cavallini either
in Targioni or Moreni.

826 PoETTJLAisro, old red morocco, gilt edges 4to. Smc. xvi. on vellum

A Collection of fourteen Charts, exquisitely drawn and painted in gold and
colours upon vellum of the purest quality. Each chart is richly adorned
with drawings of the mariner's compass, ships, towns, citadels, flags, &c.
This is one of the most important and splendid collections of maps ever
offered for sale. They were made by an Italian geographer, as appears
from the inscriptions, which are in Italian. From several important
geographical facts contained therein, they appear to have been drawn about
the middle of the sixteenth century, shortly after the Magellan circum-
navigation, and a superficial survey of a great portion of the coast of
America, but certainly before the true conformation of the Terra del
Fuego was known, as in the map which contains the southern part of
America and the Strecto de Magalanes, the Terra del Fuego is represented as
running East, and forming a portion of the then supposed Antarctic continent,
so celebrated that even pretended Kings of that imaginary continent were
brought to Europe. To give a full idea of the importance of these
geographical maps, we subjoin a descriptive list of the whole of them,
premising that each occupies two quarto pages, forming a single sheet of
vellum, with coloured borders.

1st. Asia from the Arabic Coast to Tartary, the Caspian Sea, and Mare
Sitico, with the degrees of latitude marked from 26 to 80.

2nd. Asia Minor, the Black Sea, the Crimea, the Greek Islands, and
Egypt.

3rd. Greece, Italy, with the Islands, and the opposite Coast of Africa.

4th. The western portion of the Mediterranean, with the islands of Sar-
dinia, Corsica, the Baleares, and the coasts of Italy, France and Spain,
from Terracina to Gibraltar, as well as the opposite coasts of Africa
(Tunis, Algiers, etc. to Ceuta). These are adorned with illuminations of
several towns, amongst which Genoa, with its towers, churches, and
harbour, is so exquisitely drawn as to induce us to suppose that perhaps
this Portulano was made in that city so celebrated for its school of cosmo-
graphers during the XVth and XVIth centuries.

5th. England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Africa (from
Algiers to the C. de Sbarba, with the Rio de VOro, and the celebrated lake
of the interior of Africa, crossed by large rivers (probably the Tihad and
the Niger), as well as several islands in the Atlantic (with the scale of
latitude from the 20th to the 64th degree), namely, the Canaries, the
Azores, and the celebrated Ilia de Brazil (in two different places) which has
given so much trouble to modern geographers.

6th. A portion of North America and the Atlantic ocean, from the 14th
to the 56th degree of latitude, with the scale of degrees. It contains the
Tierra del Bacalaos, comprising Newfoundland and other islands, with the
whole coasts of Canada and the United States; the Barbadoes, the Antilles,
and many other islands (including the Brazil), and also the whole of the
western coasts of Europe and Africa from Ireland to Rio de Senaga (sic).

7th. La Nuova Spagna (Mexico), the Isthmus of Panama, Mar del Sur
(Pacific ocean), CastUla de lo oro (Venezuela, etc.), and the whole of the

184 THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS.

Islands of the Mexican Gulph, etc., with the scale of latitude from the 2nd
to the 40th north degree.

8th. America, with the Eio Maragnon (Amazon) and the Atlantic ocean,
including the Islands and even a small portion of Africa, having the scale
of latitude from the 25th degree south to the 18th north.

9th. South America, Chili, the Eio dela Plata, the Strecto de Magalanes,
Terra del Fuego, Antarctic Continent, both the oceans, etc., with a scale of
latitude from the 65th to the 22nd degree of latitude south.

10th. Western coast of America, and the Pacific Ocean, with a scale of
latitude from the 30th degree south to the 12th north.

11th. California, uli Seiti cita nominati Civola," Japan, and Pacific
Ocean, with the scale of latitude from the 2nd to the 45th degree north.

12th. Western Africa, with the Atlantic Ocean and Island, the scale of
latitude beginning with the 25th degree south.

13th. Southern Africa, with the Cape, both the oceans, S. Lorenzo (Mada-
gascar), and the Antarctic Continent called Terra incognita, as also the
scale of latitude from the 51st to the 9th degree south.

14th. Eastern Africa, the Eed Sea, Abyssinia, Egypt, Arabia, Persia,
the Indian Oceans and Islands (including the Maldive), with the scale of
latitude from the 11th south to the 33rd north. An important geographical
fact is, that the source of the Nile (Eio Nilo) is placed beyond the line in
the interior part of Africa, far from the coast ; the Abyssinian branch not
far from the town of Amara, figured on this map, is represented as being
only a tributary stream.

We do not think that a finer or more interesting collection of ancient maps
could be found. The names, in full, are beautifully written in red and
black, and the towns even in the interior are represented in various colours.

For the History of G-eography, but chiefly of that of America,

THIS MANUSCRIPT IS TRULY INVALUABLE. (See faC- simile.)

827 Portulano royal folio. $mc. xvi. on yellum

A Collection of seven very early and large maps (drawn shortly after the Discovery
of America) exquisitely painted, and illuminated in gold and colours on
vellum. These beautiful charts, in which all the then known sea-ports are
laid down, are adorned with drawings of trees, lions, ships, and flags of the
various nations, and small views of Seville, Eome, Venice, Genoa, Constan-
tinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Castello da Myna. On the last chart
(that of a portion of America) is written in a bold hand " Joham
freire A fez crades 46." We have been unable to find any informa-
tion respecting this Portuguese cosmographer, who must be considered
as quite unknown, since even an eminent Portuguese geographer, the Viscount
de Santarem, whose recent death is so much to be lamented by the scientific
world, was unable to discover who this Joham Freire was. In his
Recherches sur la priorite de la decouverte des pays situes sur la cote occidentals
d1 Afrique, published in 1842, Viscount de Santarem, describing (p. 127) this
identical manuscript (then in the possession of the celebrated collector
Baron Taylor) called it a precious unpublished Atlas, but was unable
to give any information about its author, who was certainly a first-rate
cosmographer, and states that no other work by him is known. Viscount
de Santarem thought that this atlas , in which he found much interesting
information concerning the Portuguese maritime discoveries (but which, on
account of its importance, would deserve a more special and minute descrip-
tion and illustration) was made in the year 1546. As this Portulano is
certainly without any date, we cannot explain his reasons for such an asser-
tion otherwise than by supposing that in the last map, where the word
" crades " is immediately followed by the number 46, the last two
letters es, of that word were inattentively read as signifying 15, thus
making, with the two following figures 46, the whole number 1546.
Perhaps the mistake was derived from some imperfect tracing supplied to
Viscount de Santarem.

For not only is this date not on the map, as the inspection of the
original or even a first sight of the facsimile will show, but we may deduce,
from the examination of these maps themselves, additional proofs of their

THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS. 185

earlier date. We stated, at the beginning, that these charts are adorned
with fine illuminations of towns, ships animals, and flags. These flags,
attached to various localities, are indicative of the nation or power they
then belonged to. Thus, finding the Spanish flag at Oran, which town was
taken by the Spaniards in 1509, and the Portuguese flag at Ceuta, which
was taken from the Portuguese by the Spaniards in 1530, we are strongly
inclined to believe that these maps must have been made between the two
mentioned dates. For although we find the Spanish flag also at the
Galetta de Tunis, this may have been added afterwards (in 1535), as soon
as it was known that the Emperor, Charles the Vth, had taken possession
of the Galetta. The Spanish flag (Aragon and Leon) is marked on Spain,
and on all the Spanish possessions. In the middle of the first map there
is painted a large imperial double-headed eagle, showiug that these splendid
maps were made for the Emperor Charles the Fifth, himself To show the
importance of this geographical monument, we add the contents of
each map :

1. North of Europe; Lapland, Sweden, Russia, Denmark, the Baltic, and the

North Sea.

2. Western Europe: England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, France, Spain, Portu-

gal, Western Africa, the Ocean, the Mediterranean, with the islands
[Madeira and others, including the then celebrated Brazil] with the scale of
latitude from the 32nd to the 60th degree north.

3. France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain, Coast of Algiers, and the States of

Barbary.

4. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Turkey in Asia, and Egypt.

5. Portugal, Coasts of Africa, with the Islands.

6. Coasts .of Africa.

7. America, from Isla da Fortuna to the Island of Sam Joam, and Terra Nova.

(See facsimile').

For other manuscripts respecting Portulani, Geography, Cosmography, etc. see
also Nos. 407, 508, 523, 623, 650, 718, 991, 1061, 1164, etc., in the present
Catalogue. (See facsimile.)

828 Postlethwayt ( Jac. " Triii. Coll. Cant. Alumnus ") Cursus Mathema-

ticus Cantab. 1731, velhvm 4<to. S^ec. xviii. on paper

This autograph work is, as was the habit at that time in England, written
with the notation of fluxions.

829 Premare (el Padre) Arte del Idioma Sinico (in Spanish and Chinese)

ito. S^EC. Xix. ON PAPER

830 Premare, Linguse Sinicse Notitia folio. S^eo. xix. on paper

831 Priorista Fiorentino, sino al 1532

old red morocco gilt, ivith the Capponi arms on the sides

folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

This Priorista was formerly in the possession of the celebrated Florentine
family of Capponi, and has their arms (half white and half black)
painted on the cover. It contains the coats of arms (several of them
beautifully emblazoned in various colours) and the history of the whole of
the ancient families from the earliest times. Both as a valuable historical
and as a splendid heraldic manuscript this volume may defy competition.

832 Priorista Sunto e Eistretto delle Casate e Famiglie Florentine

antiche e moderne, sino all anno 1596 Mo. Smc. xvii. on paper

833 Prisctanits Maior Incipit Artis GtRAmatic^ Eomana Conditus

Urbe (cum glossis) folio. Svec. xi.-xii. on vellum

The first capital and border in this venerable manuscript have been repainted
at a more recent period, as well as the Deo Gratias, Finis, at the end. This
manuscript contains the XV'I books of Priscian, which form what was
formerly called the Priscianus Major, the remaining portion of his great
grammatical work being called the Priscianus Minor. The Latin characters
are large, with painted initials, the Greek characters for the Greek quo-
tations being very large also. To find the Greek quotations in early

186 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

manuscripts of Priscianus is a very rare occurrence, as we learn from
the Biographie Universelle (XXXVI. Ill), that the learned E. Vinet, who
intended to give a new and corrected edition of the work, was never able
to find an ancient manuscript of Priscian with the Greek quotations. As the
mass of quotations from Greek and Latin classics (many of which were lost) is
perhaps one of the chief merits of Priscian's writings — an early manuscript
with such quotations must be a work of great literary value. It is well known
that most of the manuscripts of this author (if not the whole of them) were
derived from copies made by Theodorus, a pupil of Priscian, who wrote
his name, with the date, in his manuscript. Krehl in his edition of Priscian
(vol. I. p. ix.) mentions as a curious fact that, in the Heidelberg codex of this
author, there are two different inscriptions relating to the copy made by
this Theodorus with two different dates, one at the beginning with the date
of Kl. Octobris Indictione V. Olibrio consule, and one at the end of the
liber VIII, with the date of " Die III id. ianuariis Mavortio viro consule
indictione quinta." In this manuscript there is nothing of the kind,
neither at the commencement nor at the end of the VIHth book, but at
the beginning of the Vlth book (leaf 38) which is misplaced in this manu-
script, we find the following inscription —

"Artis Prisciani cesariensis viri eloquentissimi grammatice liber Sextus de nomine
incipit. Scripsi ego Theodorus dionisii viri eloquentissimi memoriale sacri scrinii
epistolarum et adiutor viri magni questorum sacri palacii in urbe Constantinopoli
olibrio V. C. C. S. prologus,"

while at the beginning of the XIII book, we find in this manuscript (with-
out any mention of the book, but with a still different date)

" Teodorus memorialis sacri scrinii epistolarum et adiutor questoris scripsi manu
mea in urbe Roma, Constantinopoli, nonis Februariis mavortio consule."

It would be difficult to give a clear explanation of these differences, but very
likely these different dates at the beginning of the work, and at the begin-
ning of the several books, show the progress of the scribe in his work, and
give some idea of the time which he employed in making his copy. In the
original copy by Theodorus, at the beginning of each book there was very
probably a similar inscription which the subsequent copyists did not reproduce,
perhaps because they could not read it, owing to the decayed state of the
manuscript from which they transcribed their work. At any rate, the
differences which we point out show that, although this manuscript is
derived from the copy of Theodorus, it is taken from a different source from
that which was used by the scribes, who put the date of the III ido Janu-
ari, at the end of this VIHth book. This is of great importance for so
interesting a work, of which the greatest desideratum is a truly critical
edition with an illustrative commentary, concerning which Krehl says :

" Quarum moles tanta est ut stolidissimus essem in meis viribus moveri earn possem
opinarer. Abstinui ergo ab illustratione."

This manuscript derives additional value from numerous marginal un-
published notes, the greatest portion of which, at the beginning, were
written in a very fine small hand, during the xith century, and no doubt
must be ascribed to an ancient Latin author. Some are more modern
(probably at . the beginning of the fifteenth century). An important fact
is, that the volume contains numerous marginal notes by the celebrated
Angelus Politianus, by whom this manuscript was much studied, and who
has written his name in it. (See facsimile.)

834 Prisciani Caesariensis Grammatici de Grammatica Libri XV.

original binding Mo. SiEC. xv. on vellum

In a beautiful Italian hand, with illuminated capitals, and a fine painted border
on the first leaf, having in front the inscription " ad Julianum Consulem ac
Patricium, which Krehl omits, as he was unable to find it in any manuscript
he collated.

This fine manuscript exhibits a very pure text, the Greek quotations being
supplied in a different hand, and the correct digamma used wherever it

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 187

occurs. As the XVth BookinKrehl's edition is divided into two, in realitythis
manuscript ought to be described as exhibiting " Libri XVI." As a spe-
cimen of the various readings, we select a few occurring in the XVIth
Book of Krehl, treating " De Conjunctionibus : "

MANUSCRIPT. EDITION.

Vim vel ordinem demonstrans Vim vel ordinationem

Non tamen motum omnimodo sequitur Non tamen etiam motum, &c.

ambulatio

Ambulare tamen sine motu non potest Ambnlare autem sine motu non potest

Accidunt conjunctioni figura et species Accidunt igitur, &c.

Copulativse sunt quae copulant Copulativa est quse copulat

Haec enim copulat Hsec enim copulant

Utque invenitur non solum copulativa Utque invenitur etiam completiva.

sed etiam completiva.

A curious fact is that this manuscript does not contain any mention 01
the Theodoras mentioned in the previous manuscript, and also that there
is scarcely any division of the work into different books. See also Nos.
58 and 666 in the present Catalogue.

835 Prisciantjs de Octo Partibus Orationis transcriptus per me Presby-

terura Antoniuin Cornaredum, 1462
original binding folio. S^ec. xv. (1462) on paper

This valuable manuscript, written in Italy, would furnish many good readings
hitherto unnoticed, and to save trouble we take a sample from Book XVI :

, Manuscript. Krehl.

Ambulare autem sine motu non nemo Ambulare autem sine motu non potest
potest.

No Greek words, no mention of Theodorus, and no division of the work
into different books are to be found in this manuscript. See also No. 58 in
the present Catalogue.

836 Peob^: Falconi^; Centona ex Metris Virgilii edita — Virgilii

Bucolica (vi — x) et Georgicorttm libri IV, cum Glossis margina-
libus — Ciceronis de Paradoxis Liber — Ovidii Liber de
Pulice — Gttjalfredi Anglici Poetria Novella, in hoc opere
tractatur de V partibus rethoricse (Versibus Hexametris) — Artis
Bethoric^ doctrltsta Duplex small folio. Smc. xiv. on yelltjm

A very important Collection from the Rinuccini Library, sold in 1848, with the
arms of the family on the book. At the end of the volume there is
a memorandum from M. Follini, Keeper of the Magliabechi Library of
Florence, stating that in 1827 he bought for that library the second portion
of this manuscript, which is now restored to its first part, loose. This
portion of the manuscript was probably abstracted (with many other books)
from the Rinuccini, then sold to the Magliabechi, and finally restored (with
a few other books) to its former possessor. Some of the works contained
in this volume are very rare in manuscript. The curious Poem of Proba is
so scarce that Heenel, in his bibliographical tour, found only a single manu-
script of it, and that at Basle. The glosses on Virgil (the beginning of
which is deficient) are old, and most probably taken from a more ancient
manuscript of Roman descent. These glosses have nothing to do with the
Commentary of Servius. After the Georgica there is a Clausula, contain-
ing in two pages a sort of introduction to the Bucolica, agreeing in some
respects with Servius1 Introduction to the same work but differing in
several important points ; for instance, in this manuscript we read that
(instead of Virgil's being the son of a mechanic or rustic, as in Servius and
Donatus) his parents were " De honoratissimis civium suorum sic ipse in
Culice ait Vos ego non dubitare summis efferre parentes." (Sic). The Para-
doxa contain some curious various readings. Like the other small spurious
works of Ovid, the Pulex is of no common occurrence in manuscripts. The
Poetria Novella is by Gualfredus de Vinosalvo, a celebrated Englishman and

188

THE LIBE1 MANTTSCBIPTS.

Poet of the beginning of the 13th century. This work was published by Ley-
ser, in his Historia Poetarum medii cevi, but without the commentary or the
frequent headings of the numerous chapters into which the work is divided
in this manuscript. The volume, the whole of which was written by the
same hand, has the date at the end of the Poetria written in the following
manner : Expletum hoc opus fuit anno domini M? iij? xLv? die xxviij
decembris, tempore Papas Clementis VI," which shows a curious instance
of numerical abridgment.

837 Prosperus. Commentaria in Epigrainmata S. Prosperi Aquitanici

folio. SiEC. xiv. ON PAPEE

With a large illuminated initial. The author of this ancient commentary, and
the work itself, seem both unknown.

838 Proverbs and Adages (Hindi), 1154 in all, alphabetically arranged

small folio. $mc. xix. on india paper

An interesting work written in the Nasta'llk character, and probably prepared
for publication.

839 Proverbs and Sayings in Persian, 1074 in all, in alphabetical order, and

in Verse folio. SiEC. xix. on paper

A very curious manuscript without date or compiler's name.

840 Prudentii Clementis (Anrelii) Opera, cum Glossis

in the original binding, with clasps square &to. Sjsc. x. on vellum

The rarity of the old manuscripts of Prudentius is so great, that not above three
or four are known written before the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. The
importance therefore to scholars of so early a manuscript as the present,
hitherto uncollated, is sufficiently obvious, and fully justifies a quotation to
point out a few of the numerous new and important readings it exhibits.
The heading to the first hymn is, " Ymnus ad Gallicinium," (the very term
used by Varro), instead of " Gralli Cantum; and Hymn V. line 6, gives
" iEgros sopore desides " instead of " segros, soporos, desides."

Manuscript.

Hymn I, line 62, Lingua locutus lubrica est
Hymn X., Ymnus circa Exequias de-

functorum

effigisti
Tua sunt tua rector utraque
Tibi copula jungitur horum
Tibi dum vegetata cohserent
Spiritus simul et caro vivit

(Gloss, at servit)
Recisa sed ista seorsum
Proprios revocantur in

bortus
Perit alitus sethera fervens
Humus excipit arida corpus
Siccunctacreatanecesse est.

Valpy's Edition.

Linguae locutus lubrico est
Hymnus circa Exequias defuncti

effigiasti
Tua sunt, tua, rector, utique :
Tibi copula jungitur horum:
Tibi dum vegetata cohcerent,
Et spiritus et caro servit

Pecissa sed ista seorsum
Solvunt bominum perimuntque;

Humus excipit arida corpus,
Animse rapit aura liquorem.
Quia cuncta creata necesse est.

A description of the metres made use of by Prudentius is prefixed to
each Poem in red ink. The ancient Glosses are extremely valuable for the
interpretation of this author. After the Passio Sanctse Agnetis, there is in
this manuscript a poem with this title: " Versus Constantinae Constantini
filise, scripti in cabsida basilicse quam condidit in honore Agnetis Virginis."
to which poem a former owner has affixed a marginal remark, stating that
it is unpublished.

This venerable manuscript, written in the finest Carlovingian characters,
with the rubrics and headings in fine rustic capitals, written in red ink,
with curious large initials, is in the finest state of preservation. (See
facsimile.)

THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS. 189

841 Psalterium Dayidis, cum Glossa. Accedunt Hyinni ex Yetere Tes-

tamento, half morocco small folio. Bmq. x-xi. on yellum

Beautifully written on very pure vellum with the letter B at the commencement
of the first Psalms, illuminated in gold and colours, apparently by an Anglo-
Saxon artist. The manuscript is written in a rather large fine Roman-
Carlovingian character of the period, the rubrics, etc. being in capital red
rustic letters. (Seefac simile).

842 PSALTERIUM CUM GLOSSIS

ancient binding of the XV. Century, ivith engraved and lettered brasses

folio. SiEC. XI. ON YELLUM

A venerable manuscript written in a fine large Carlovingian character in blue
and red, the glosses being of the same kind, but, as usual, smaller. The
volume is ornamented with very finely illuminated capitals in the style of
the time. The first leaf containing merely the word Beatus (probably an
illumination) appears to be wanting. Prefixed is the " Epistola D. Hiero-
nimi ad Paulam, etc. de psalterii emendatione,'1 which was evidently written
during the fifteenth century, after the erasure of some ancient characters
still visible. On the first page there is the Parvus eram of David in Greek
and Latin, written in a very ancient hand. At the end there is a Laus
Psalmorum, written in the sixteenth century, and on the covers inside
are the decalogue and some medical prescriptions. (See facsimile).

843 Psalterium Dayidis, Confessio Fidei S. Athanasii, Litanue, &c.

cum Calendario calf gilt 4<to. Sjsc. xiv. on yellum

A very elegant manuscript, with illuminated capitals and several hundred gro-
tesque figures filling up the vacant spaces at the end of each verse, by an
English scribe. As a specimen of early English art it is extremely inter-
esting.

844 Psalmorum Explanatio — Sermo Innocentii Papse in Concilio generali

de Pascha — Hymni Ecclesiastici — C antic a Canticorum — Para-
phrasis Libri qui dicitur Cantica Canticorum et alia
with musical notes, calf 4to. Bmc. xii, xiii, and xiv. ON yellum

This volume is a collection of works, written by various scribes at different
times. The music, dispersed through the manuscript, which consists of
ten pages, is with old musical notes. There are several Latin hymns
in the volume, one of which begins with " Salve mater salvatoris vas electre,
vas honoris, vas ccelestis gratiae," and some abstractsfrom S. Augustin.
(See facsimile) .

845 Ptholomei centtloquium (cum commentario Haly Heber Eodan) —

Tractatus de creticis diebus — Almansoris liber capitulorum
(translatus de Arabico in Latinum a Platone tyburtino quern dens
exultet in civitate Barchinonica, Anno Arabum 530, (a.d. 1135,)
etc ) — Centtloquium Hermetis — Hermetis tremigisti Flores —
Sahel descriptio prgeceptorum qui in omnibus noscenda occurrunt
negotiis — Mercuricis Babilonise auforifinse
calf arms on the side folio. Sjec. xiii. on yellum

A very important scientific collection, finely written on pure vellum with dia-
grams. The numerical figures are all according to the Arabic system,
which is important as the manuscript is dated, and at the end of the
Liber Almansoris (after the name of the translator) there is the following
inscription : " Conterius lunatus cumensis scripsi cum dei laude 1268 xpi."
The first leaf of Ptolemy seems deficient. Concerning the celebrated Plato
Tyburtinus consult his biography by Prince Buoncompagni, which however
shows that no manuscript of the Liber Almansoris was known to the
learned author.

190

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

846 Purbachii (G-eorgii, " Astronomi celebratissimi ") Theoricae novae

Planetarum — Tractates de Horologio — Cantus, cum notis musicis
— De Passionibus Planetarum — De Motu octavae sphaerae — De
Declinatione et Latitudine — De Algorithmo Tabtjla

4it0. S^C. XV. ON PAPER

An interesting mathematical collection with diagrams, and numerous Tabulae, hav-
ing Arabic numerical figures. In the Tractatus De Declinatione, &c, there is
a long quotation from Franciscus de Manfredonia. The Algorithmus which
relates to the Arabic system begins as follows : " Algorithmus dicitur airo
Tov apiQjxov a novo quidem modus numerandi a quodam Algo nomine
inventus. Numerorum autem alius est digitus, alius articulus, alius compo-
situs, &c." This Algorithmus, containing the sum of some progressions
(including that of the odd numbers), and which seems unpublished, is very-
interesting for the history of arithmetic, and is followed by several Tabulce
for astronomical and ecclesiastical purposes.

847 Putei (Jacobi) Recolecta super prima Infortiatium (de Matrimonio

soluto, de Testamentis, de Liberis et Postumis, de vulgari et pupilari
Substitutione) et alia folio. S^ec. xv. (1462) on paper

An important Autograph manuscript dated die 9° Nov. 1462, which proves to a
certainty that Jacobo del Pozzo did not die in 1453, as stated in the " Atti
dell' Universita di Pavia," and that Tiraboschi was right in doubting the
correctness of that statement, after he had discovered in the Ducal
Archives a letter from the Reformers of the University of Ferrara to Duke
Borso, dated the second of December 1461, expressing a desire that Pozzo
should be called to a chair in that University " poiche e uno de1 piufamosi
dottori." This application appears to have been complied with, for Borsetti
in his Historia Gymnasii Ferrariensis (torn. II. p. 49.) distinctly enumerates
him among the professors in 1466. This Jacopo del Pozzo was unquestion-
ably one of the most learned lawyers of his time, and as such is mentioned
by the poet Antonio d'Asti

" Ut Jacobus Puteus, qui jure in utraque tenetur
Consultus tota magnus in Ausonia"

He sprang from a noble family in Alessandria, but having been driven
from thence by the civil wars, he, on account of his surpassing knowledge of
the law, became first professor at Pavia and afterwards at Ferrara. If we
credit Borsetti, he subsequently became a senator at Milan, where he died
in 1486. This work, consisting of several hundred pages (on some of
which the learned author has indulged in writing Italian amatory verses,
and drawing ludicrous sketches), seems quite unknown. This Jacobus
Puteus (Del Pozzo) was amongst the ancestors of the present Emanuel del
Pozzo Prince della Cisterna, who conspicuously supports the honour of his
ancient name. (See also No. 259 in the present Catalogue).

848 Quadriga Spiritttale. Incommencia lo libro decto Quadriga Spirituale.

— Antonius de Florentia (S. Ordinis Praedicatorum) de VII
Yitiis Capitalibus, Italice (Omnium mortalium cura)

small 8vo. Sjec. xv. on vellum

Both written in the purest Italian, by a Tuscan scribe. This manuscript
affords a great number of interesting various readings. The first work
indulges too much in abominable inquiries about "il Vitio della Lussuria."

S49 Quintus Curtius de Rebus gestis Alexandri Magni

folio. SiEC. xv. on vellum

Very elegantly written by an Italian scribe with capitals illuminated in gold
and colours. It is well known that only a portion of this Latin classic has
come down to us, the first two books having been lost, and several lacunai
existing in those remaining. It is generally believed that the whole work
was originally divided into ten books, and there is hardly any trustworthy
authority against such a belief, except a manuscript which belonged to the

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 191

celebrated Vossius, where, to one of the lacunce, he found a marginal note
stating " Deficit finis x. lib. principii xi.," and the mention of a xiiith book
made by Pub. Candidus in his Italian translation, first printed at Florence
1478. The present manuscript however affords an additional proof that
the work must have originally consisted of more than ten books, as at the
back of the leaf 152 we find, attached to a well-known lacuna, the follow-
ing marginal note in the same handwriting as the manuscript, " Deficit
finis x. et principium xi." This remarkable note must have been taken
from an older manuscript, as the books of the present one are numbered
by the copyist i, ii, hi, to viii, instead of iii, iv, to x, as they ought to be,
and he could not therefore have suggested a lacuna between book x.
and xi. ; as, according to his own wrong numeration, the lacuna would be
in the viiith book, and not in the xth. This fine manuscript, consisting of
161 leaves, written upon the purest white vellum, affords a good number of
various readings, which it would be impossible to point out here, but
which deserve the attention of the scholar. Numerous old marginal cor-
rections occur on almost every page.

850 Quinti CuRTii,Epistolse et diversorurn ad ipsum: "Padua? die xi Aprilis,

mcccclxxviiii. complevi " — Caroli Arethsti, Homerica Carmina —
Leonardo Aretijsti, actus primus comoedia? prima? Aristophanis,
latinis versibus translata, et alia 8vo. Smc. xv. oisr paper

These singular and almost unknown Apocryphal Epistles of Quintus Curtius are
divided into Five Books. This Quintus Curtius must not be confounded
with the Historian of Alexander, as the forger's intention was to make
his author an old Roman General, having among his correspondents
Hannibal, Asdrubal, Fabricius Consul, &c. Not a single manuscript of these
apocryphal epistles was found in the public libraries visited by Hsenel.
They were published at Reggio by Ugo de Rugeriis in 1500, and reprinted
at the end of the first volume of his Bibliotheca Latina, by Fabricius (4to.
edition). The Poemata, as well as the Homeric versions (also in Latin
verse) of Carolus Marsuppinus, surnamed Aretinus, seem, with the excep-
tion of the Batrachomyomachia, unpublished. Mazzuchelli mentions this
translation of Aristophanes only from a manuscript formerly in the posses-
sion of G. Degli Aromatarj.

851 Rabani Matjri Liber super Hieremia. " Rabanus Eccellentissimo

Imperatori Hluthario Virtus Vita et Salus perpetua post Commen-
tariolos quos mea Parvitas in Eptaticum (Heptateuchum), &c. ad
extremum in Hieremiam manum misi ut collectis undique Sanctorum
patrum sententiis hujus quoque prophetse sensus aliquantulum avido
lectori aperirem " folio. Smc. x. oisr velltjm

This venerable manuscript, closing with : "Hie liber descriptus est jussu Domni
Maioli Abbatis ab Herimanno sacerdote licet indigno et monachorum om-
nium ultimo et prselibati patris voto oblatus sancto petro cluniensi ccenobio.
Orat scriptor quatenus quicunque eum manibus susceperit legendum veniam
illi a Domino imploret peccaminum:" is undoubtedly the identical codex
seen by the celebrated Mabillon, at Cluny, as in his Iter Burgundicum he has
accurately given the above colophon. As St. Mayeul (Maiolus) was Abbot of
that celebrated Monastery, from A.D. 948 to A.D. 994 (see Gallia Chris-
tiana, vol. IV, col. 1127-28;, it is clear that the copyist, Herimann, must
have transcribed it within those forty-seven years. To the Student
desirous of ascertaining with precision the date of early manuscripts, the
acquisition of unquestionable authorities is of the highest importance.
Here is now presented a most desirable example of nearly every style of
penmanship in use during the tenth century. The author Rabanus, if not
actually an Englishman (as erroneously asserted by Riccobaldi of Ferrara,
Ptolemeo of Lucca, and numerous others), is connected with the English
literature by being the pupil of the celebrated Alcuin. Manuscripts of this
work of Rabanus are exceedingly scarce. Hsenel had seen only one in the
celebrated library of Saint Galle, and that containing only the second portion of
the Commentary upon Jeremiah. No manuscript copy of this work is

192 THE LIBRI MANUSCEIPTS.

mentioned in the printed " Catalogus Bibl. Regise Paris." nor in that of the
Medicean Library of Florence, etc., etc. To a new editor this manuscript
would prove invaluable, as, the work being very important and full of
quotations from ancient authors, the volume has been in the same century
in which it was written, revised and corrected by a learned pen.

This manuscript is in the finest Carlovingian small letter, with the rubrics
in small rustic capitals, generally in green or red, the Greek words being
exceedingly well written in small capitals. At the beginning of the work
there is a very curious large illuminated capital of the time, representing
the Prophet attended by two other figures. {See facsimile).

852 Eabini (cujusdam) liber de triplici Ordine Librorum Yeteris Testa-

menti, de triplici Prserogativa David, de Anno Jubilaeo, &c. &c.

folio. S^c. xii-xiii. on vellum

At the commencement of this important manuscript is written " Liber est
cujusdam Rabini super Bibliam." At the end there are some additional
theological matters in an Italian handwriting of the fourteenth century. The
numerical figures are written according to the ancient Roman alphabetical
system.

853 Eaccolta d'Opere Spiritttali (in prosa e in verso)

4ito. S^c. xv. & xvi. ON PAPER

An interesting collection of ascetical tracts generally in Italian, with a few in
Latin, in prose and verse, all anonymous and of which we were unable
to trace any mention by the historians of Italian literature. They are
generally in the style of Feo Belcari's pious works. The following is
a list of the contents of this volume: Contemplationes de passione Christi;
Laude dell' Orazione (Incipit : L oration si e un levamento, etc.) ; Trattato
spirituale dell' Allevamento di Jesu Cristo ; Trattato dei dolori e gaudii
della croce ; Septe Parabole che disse Jesu Nazareno in croce (in prosa e
in versi) ; Cantici, in Italiano ed in Latino ; Dolori di Maria ; Devote ora-
tione et cose devote de li dolori mentali di Yu- C°- li quali esso per sua
gratia si degnd comunicarli con una devota religiosa la quale . . li conferio
meco, etc. This last tract is written by a more recent hand.

854 Eacine (J.) Atalia, Tragedia tradotta dal Erancese (in prosa Italiana)

4<to. Smc. xviii. on paper

855 Eadulphi Laudunensis de Abaco Liber folio. SiEC. xix. on paper

A modern transcript of a very ancient and curious work on the Abacus, of which,
according to Montfaucon and Fabricius (Bibl. Lot. Med. vol. V. p. 34), a
manuscript existed in the library of St. Victor, in Paris, but which M.
Chasles (Apercu, p. 508) evidently supposed to be lost, as the learned
author speaking of this work says : " II existait dans la Bibliotheque de
l'Abbaye de St. Victor," etc. This work, occupying 72 folio pages, is
exceedingly interesting for the history of the science of arithmetic, as it
contains, at the same time, the old Roman numerals mixed with peculiar
and very strange signs, for the figures of simple and complex numbers.

856 Eanieri (Conte Costanzo, " Perugino ") Sommario dell' Istoria di

Pompeo Pellini Perugino che contiene gV Annali della Citta di
Perugia dalla sua Eondazione sino all' Anno, 1706, da Eosalte
Alfeonio Pastore Arcade (Conte C. Eanieri)

4to. SiEC. xviii. (1706) on paper

A very curious and unpublished work.

857 Eamundi (Lullii) Novus Tractatus de Astronomia

in the original oak hinding 4<to. SiEC. xv. ON paper

One of the rarest of the works of the famous Raymond Lulle in manuscript,
the only other copy that we find mentioned being described in the great
" Catalogus Bibl. Regime Paris." On the cover of the present is a curious

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 193

Latin Volvelle written on vellum, and representing the motions of the
planets. This valuable manuscript was formerly in the library " Casles-
tinorum de Ambianis." In the Volvelle each planet is called by a special
letter.

858 Reali di Francia, Poema in ottava Rima folio. SiEC. xv. on paper

An unpublished Romance, written in 1436, and finished on the 29th of November.
It contains numerous considerable autograph alterations and emendations on
many of the pages. The commencement (about 20 leaves) is wanting. This
singular poetical Romance, consisting of several hundred pages is rudely
written, but the first portion of it has been altered in almost every line, no
doubt, with the intention of publication. For instance, the original verse, " II
miglior medezi (sic), uene al palazo," has been transformed into " De
medici il miglior uenne a palacio," in the same century by a different hand.
In several parts this Romance relates to England and the feats of English
Knights.

The title, Reali di Francia, on the fly-leaf is modern. This Poem was
composed in 1436, as appears from the last stanza, a date which shows that
it cannot be the Reali di Francia by Cristoforo Fiorentino called
Altissimo, who was still alive in 1514, when Filippo Giunti dedicated to
him his edition of Sannazaro's Arcadia. As a specimen we give the last
stanza, in its rude genuine form.

" Avea il sole mile volte zirato

Et ancor trenta sei apreso quatro zento

In soa spera el mondo avea lustrato
A vinti di de otiibrio ch' io non mento

Quando questo libro sono chomenzato
Et anche scrito senza manchamento.

A di 29 de novembrio over in quel chontorno

Al qual per grazia die faza perdono."

Ill fact this is a totally unknown poem, written 98 years before that
called Reali by Cristoforo was printed, and treating of exactly the same
subject. This poem is, like most of the old French romances, without any
distinction of cantos, but the beginning of this manuscript corresponds to
about the Vth Canto of the Reali of Cristoforo, ending with the death of
Monlion, like the poem of the Altissimo, who so narrowly follows the
present unpublished romance that, in all probability, the latter was known
to him when he wrote his Version of the Reali. This valuable manuscript
was formerly hi the Rinuccini library at Florence, from which a celebrated
manuscript of Dioscorides was imported into England. See also Nos. 925
and 1047 in the present Catalogue.

859 Rebi (Francesco) Sonetti LX 4>to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

This seems to be the manuscript that was prepared for publication. The name
of this celebrated physician is equally known to scientific and literary men.

860 Regimen Sanitatis (Schola Salerni) — Problemata plura, metrice

conscripta — Albertanus, Causidicus Brixiensis et de Monas-
terio S. Agathse, de Am ore et Dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum
rerum et de Forma Vitse ; Ejusdem Liber de Consolatione et
Consilio (Anno mccxltii compositus) ; Ejusdem Liber de Modo
dicendi et tacendi sub Anno mccxlv, editus et compositus — Salo-
mons Ecclesiastes — Beenardi (S. Abbatis Monasterii Clarevallis)
Epistola super Re familiari utilius gubernanda ad Raymundum
Militem et Capitulum cuidam Epistoke B. Bernardi ad suadendam
Honestatem Morum. Idem de Conscientia — Hugo be S. Victore
de Disciplina et de Compunctione Cordis — Dieeenitiones plurima-
rum Yirtutum et Viciorum — Tractates de septem Peccatis mor-
talibus — Aristotelis Secretum Secretorum ad Alexandrum Regem
Magnificum — Tractates de quatuor Rotis Mundi Incipit " Sunt
autem quatuor mundi rotae " — Floees Parabolarum Salomonis ;

o

194 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

Jhesus filii Syrac ; Exhortationum Isocratis ad Demonicum ; Episto-
larum Synodi qui dictus est Salvianus — Elobes seu exeerptiones
Dictaminum Guidonis Fabe ; Epistolarum Cassiodori ; Yegecii de
Be Militari ; Plinii Secundi; M. T. Ciceronis; Socratis ; Lactantii;
Seneca? ; Boethii ; Sallustii ; Jeramiae ; Isidori ; Terenci ; Andrea?
Capellani ; E. Plantiadis Eulgencii ; Declamationum Quintiliani ;
Enodii episcopi Pamensis ; Valerii maximi, &c. — Pboyebbia ytjl-
gabia secundum Ibioma Lombabbicttm— Alani Versus quan do
voluit se nubere, etc. — Vebsits de Conditionibus et proprietatibus
Hominum, de modo standi ad Mensam, de Operibus et Effectibus
Nummi, &c. &c. — Petbabch^e (E.) Salutatio per Versus in Italiam
" Salve cura deo tellus Sanctissima Salve, etc."

in one vol. folio. S^ec. xiv. on yellum

A very interesting Collection, elegantly written in double columns on pure
vellum, with most elegant capitals, richly illuminated in gold and colours.
The curious metrical Regiment of Health, otherwise called the School of
Salerne, commencing Anglorum Rcgi scripsit iota Schola Salerui, has been
too often printed to require further notice. We do not find any mention
of the Problemata in rhyming verse, of which the commencement may
serve as a specimen :

Me variando nimis commendat sillaba trma
Primam dema in pro conj uge pugno latina
Si media caream non indigeo medicina
Si capias finem non est in ventre ruina."'

Like Boetius, Albertano da Brescia composed moral works during his
imprisonment. The Excerptiones from so many ancient Latin authors,
and occupying more than 80 folio pages, deserve peculiar attention. The
Proverbia vulgaria secundum Idioma Lombardum are extremely interesting
both for the history of proverbs and of the ancient Italian dialects ; but
unfortunately the beginning of this work has been abstracted from the
manuscript. The following may serve as a specimen of these proverbs :
" Quella ca non me piaxe onda la galina canta el gallo taxe — Che colpa
ga la gata se la masera e mata." The several small Poems : De Libris ;
De modo standi ad mensam (Dum manducatis mappam mundam teneatis
...Cultro sal suscipiatis, etc. etc.); De effectibus nummi (nummus...dat
genus, uxorem, famam, decus atque decorem, etc.); Petrarchse Salutatio,
&c, &c. contained in this volume are very curious for the history of
Latin poetry, as well as for the knowledge of Italian manners during the
middle ages. Respecting old proverbs in various dialects, see also No. 1043
in the present Catalogue.

8G1 Regula de li Erati et Sorelle del Sacro Ordine de Madonna Sancta
Maria Madre de Dio dal Monte Carmelo con li Ponti mitigati inserti.
Ordine de vestir le Novitie 4to. S.ec. xv. on yellum

Written in large characters, with the initial letters richly illuminated. This
manuscript contains different Regole prescribed by several Popes. One of
the most stringent is, that the monks and nuns must always be at work.

862 Rena (Orazio della) Origine, Situazione, State i Dominanti di Eerrara

4to. S^c. xviii. oisr papeb

A transcript from the original manuscript, written in 1590 (see p. lxxx. '* Nel
1590 clie e Fanno presente") which appears to have been prepared for the
press, but never printed. Concerning this author, see Moreni. {Bibl, vol.
II, p. 244.)

8G3 Rjcettabio. — Ebancesco bi Ltjcha be Eosso Libro de cinque Sensi,
dei quattri Elementi, de Medecina, &c. — Gioyan Batista, " al
presente Medicho nella Chasa adegno spedale di Santa Maria nuova
di Eirenze " Trattato contro alia Infermita del Morbo, a.b.
mcccclxiiii." — Tommaso bel Ghabbo, " eccellentiximo dottore in
medicina e Cittadino Eiorentino," Chonsiglio chontro e pistolenzia

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 195

(two copies of this treatise) — Simofe G-enovese, Le Sinonime (an
important Medical Glossary, alphabetically arranged?)— Tommaso
del Gtharro, e Maestro Antonio dulla Sciiarperia, &c. Le
Virtu della Acqua arzente overo Aqua Vita? — Francesco di Lucha
de Rosso Speziale, Uno Ricettario buono, " chomenzato a scrivere
da sua propria mano X. di Luglio 1488," in the original oak boards,
ivith clasps folio. SiEC. xv. (14(34-88) oisr paper

An important Collection of early Italian writers on medicine, all in the
Autograph of Francesco di Luca de Rosso. The first work appears to
be a collection from ancient authors. Tommaso del Garbo, a friend of
Petrarch, was the most celebrated physician of his time, as appears from
his biography by F. Villani. His Treatise on the Virtues of Brandy was
unknown, even to Mazzuchelli, and is probably unpublished. The Sinonime
of Simone Genovese, an author living at the beginning of the fourteenth
century, explain many technical terms, which would be sought in vain else-
where, and of which we know no edition. The Ricettario of Francesco di
Luca de Rosso occupies 73 leaves, and has the recipes arranged in alpha-
betical order. The first edition of the celebrated anonymous work called
Ricettario Fiorentino was, according to Moreni, printed in 1490, but this
Ricettario by Francesco de Rosso, seems totally unknown even to Targioni,
who wrote several important works on the scientific history of Tuscany.
All the works contained in this manuscript, consisting of nearly 800 folio
pages, are written in the purest Italian language, and are of great interest
for the history of science in Italy.

864 Richardi de Sancto Victore de Archa mistica seu de Contemplatione

4tO. SvEC. xiv. ON VELLUM

Beautifully written on pure vellum, with a full-length portrait of the author,
(habited as a Monk, praying in the Abbey of St. Victor,) inserted in the
richly illuminated initial. The author was a Scotchman, who at an early
age commenced his studies under the famous Hugo de Sancto Victore, by
whom he was much esteemed. He was also the friend of St. Bernard,
and died whilst Prior of his own favorite St. Victor in 1173.

865 Rime Antiche. Laude e Serventesi di F. Jacopone da Todi, Domenico

Cavalca, Iacopo da Montepulciano, Frate Cristofano del Pero, Pace
di Vanni di Citta. di Castello (et molti altri innoroinati)

Mo. SiEC. XV. ON VELLUM

A very important manuscript, consisting of 210 leaves, besides an index of five
leaves. The text of this manuscript is exceedingly pure. The first 77
leaves contain the poetry of the Beato Jacopone in its genuine orthography.
Then come the various Serventesi of the celebrated Fra Domenico Cavalca,
which occupy 13 leaves; the remaining leaves containing a great number of
Rime, the greatest portion of them without any name of the author, and
most of which from the inquiries we have made, we are induced to believe
unpublished and entirely unknown. They are written in the purest old
Italian, and generally composed during the thirteenth and fourteenth centu-
ries. One of them which relates to the Miracolo de' Bianchi in 1399, is
not so ancient as the others. Towards the end (f. ccvi) there is a Lauda
di Santa Domitilla, beginning with " Domitilla m'ha morto — Soccorete Don-
zelle, etc," and quite different from the well-known Lauda by Cavalca on
the same subject, which begins with " Una stella e apparata — Vergin di
grande onore — Domitilla chiamata, etc.'1 To the lovers of ancient Italian
poetry, this manuscript would afford a rich mine of unknown and interest-
ing poems. We must add, that even the names of Iacopo da Montepulciano,
Frate Cristofano del Pero, and Pace di Vanni di Citta di Castello are
unknown to Quadrio, who speaks at length of those sacred popular poems,
which, in Italian, are called Laudi. We have been unable to find these
names in the great Collection of Rime Italiane, published in 1846, by
M. Truchi. See also No. 534 and 807 in the present Catalogue.

o 2

19(3 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

866 Etme Antiche. Sonetti, Trionfi e Eime varie di (ed a) Fr. Petrarca,'

Ph. Brunelleschi, L. B. Alberti, Fr. de Malechanibus, S. N. de
Tinucij, M. Peruzii, Caroli Aretini, Burchiello, &c. — Eicepte buone
— Orationi e Sermoni (dinanzi la Signoria di Firenze, &c.) — Aris-
totile Eegola ad Alexandre- Magno — Eicordi Storici — Estratti
di vari autori (Quintiliano, Aulo Gellio, Villani, &c.)

4<to. S^eo. xv, on paper

A very interesting manuscript containing many unpublished Rime, and several
political orationi, the whole written (and the latter very likely composed
also) about the end of the xvth century, by Lorenzo Guidetti, whose name
is on the cover.

867 Eime e Latjdi antiche in diversi metri di Dante, Jacopone da Todi,

Petrarca, etc. etc. Svo. SiEC. xv. on paper

Besides the Italian Rime (arranged alphabetically according to the commence-
ment) this volume contains a few Hymns and some extracts, in Latin,
with several tracts and Prayers by S. Bernard, Albertus Magnus, etc. At
the end are inserted fourteen leaves of vellum, on which are written various
Exorcisms with curious Diagrams, amongst them the well-known magical
Square — Sator — arepo — tenet — opera — rotas. Except a very few, we have
not been able to find these Rime in any of the printed collections of Rime
or Laudi which we have consulted.

868 Eime antiche (e Eappresentazioni) 4tto. S^;c. xiv-xv. on paper

A Collection of early Sacred Poetry, in the style of Feo Belcari, on fifty-six
pages, distinctly written in a cursive Italian hand. It contains two Cantici
written in ottava Rima, the first in fifty-one stanzas, commencing — " 0
try et uno senpre may te chiamo," and the other in forty-five stanzas, com-
mencing " 0 Patre Eterno 0 Divina Potentia — Figliol de Dio Escelentia
Divina." These are followed by Extracts in Prose, from the Fathers
respecting " I Benefitii della Messa." Next is a Hymn, commencing :
"Anima benedetta dall' alto Creatore." The whole concludes with a long
early Mystery on the Life and Passion of Christ, in which are introduced
several Inter locutori. This Mystery commences : " Como el peccatore
domanda Maria del suo figliolo." It is comprised in 12G Quatrains, of which
the first may serve as a specimen :

" 0 gloriosa Matre Beata
Matre de Cliristo sete chiamata
Dime Madonna questa fiata
Quando tu fusty sy adolorata."

869 Eime antiche Italiane, di Ser Honesto Bolognese, di Guido Guinicelli,

di Cino da Pistoia, Dante Alighieri — Eime de gli Accademici
Selvaggi — Sonetti — Eime varie — Enimmi — Laudi antiche —
JN~ tenia in Mortem Aldinse dilectissima? Catella? H, Aleandri Junioris
cum ejusdem Catellre Apotheosi Auctore Lamberto Vossio Belga,
&c. &c. 4to. S,ec. xv. xvi. et xvii. on papeii

A most interesting volume containing a great variety of ancient Italian poetry,
with also some Latin poems, and even some prose works, written by dif-
ferent persons, at different times. Several of these tracts are undoubtedly
in the autographs of the various authors, and it is believed that not
only some autograpli poems by Coppetta, Bernardo Tasso, Bonfadio,
Fabri, Vossius, Jac. Peletier, etc. are in this manuscript, but that there
are also several pages in the handwriting of Torquato Tasso. Some
poems (for instance a curious Pasquinata) are dated 1549. Some Enimmi
are (a curious fact) partly in Italian and partly in Spanish. One poem
is in the Venetian dialect. Some of the autograph Latin poems of
L. Vossius are addressed to Prince Cesi and some to Stelluti, and con-
tain the praises of the Roman Academy of Lincei, so celebrated at

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the beginning of the seventeeth century. The work (also autograph)
of Jac. Peletarius (Peleiier du Mans) is a commentary on Virgil, which
was unknown to the biographers of this celebrated French poet and
mathematician, who in 1547 pronounced at Notre Dame, in Paris, the
oraison funebre of Henry VIII. Amongst the Italian poems (Sonetti,
Canzoni, Laudi, etc.) of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, contained
in this volume, we must mention the Credo di Dante, in a handwriting
of the fifteenth century, with many important variations from the editions.
This is a great curiosity, as this piece, of which the authenticity has been
contested, is very seldom found in old manuscripts. Some leaves of this
manuscript have been misplaced by the bookbinder, as in the case of the
Credo, which is wrongly folded. Two pages of this manuscript are written
in magical or cabalistic characters.

870 Eime Antiche (with Torquato, Tasso's Autograph Notes written

on the margins of a collection of early Italian Poetry), containing
verses by II Saviozzo da Siena, Bindo Bonichi, S. Pasquini, lo Spegnie
Cantorino, Simone Serdini, Bindo di Cione del Frate, Sirnone da
Montechiollo, Pietro Chantarini, Fr. Malacarne, Lod. Petroni, etc.

4.tO. SiEC. xv. on paper

An important collection of moral poems (some unpublished) generally written
before the year 1400. Besides the authors (all of Siena) above-mentioned,
there are in this volume other moral poems by Petrarca, Antonio da
Tempo, Coluccio Salutati, Fazio degli Uberti, (also a portion of his great
poem, II Dittamondo) &c. This interesting collection was written in
Tuscany in the year 1439 (or 1479, or 1489, see date at the end), and the
text is exceedingly pure. Its intrinsic value is much increased by several
marginal annotations which, according to the best judges, are in the auto-
graph of Torquato Tasso, who has corrected the text of this manuscript
where corrupt, and added some interesting biographical notes. For
instance, (fol. 7.) concerning Lo Spegnie Cantorino da Siena, Tasso has
written on the margins " Fu intorno al 1400, compose il libro della Spagnia
in ottava rima," which information is quite new, as it was supposed from
the stanza added to this poem in the Venetian edition of 1488, in 4to, that
it was written by Sostegno di Zanobi da Fiorenza. In every respect this
volume of Rime Antiche, containing unpublished philological and biogra-
phical remarks by Tasso (who must have studied the ancient Italian
poets more than was formerly supposed, which is proved also by his
marginal annotations on Dante, published some years ago), is worthy of great
attention. (See facsimile.)

871 Eime Antiche (d'Autore Anonimo) diviso in due Parti,

2 vol. folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

This is a transcript of an original vellum manuscript, written in the fifteenth
century, and, when Quadrio wrote in 1741, belonging to the learned
Domenico Ongaro of Udine. This transcript is the identical manuscript,
prepared by Ongaro himself for the press by adding notes and conjectural
emendations of the text, all written in blue ink. In a separate volume,
Ongaro has placed his observations and researches to discover the author
of these Poems, which are most elegant, and worthy of the best poet of
the age in which they were written. The volume contains 474 Sonetti,
13 Canzoni, 6 Sestine, and 10 Serventesi, which, in the opinion of Quadrio
(vol. II, p. 224-25) were written by Bartolommeo Costabili, who, for a con-
spiracy against Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, was decapitated about
1533. The researches, however, of Ongaro, written with a considerable
amount of erudition and critical acumen, tend to prove that Quadrio is
mistaken, and that these Poems, written near the middle of the fifteenth
century, are the productions of a most distinguished Ferrarese Poet, who
could not therefore be the Costabili to whom Quadrio assigned them. The
tine illuminated border round the first page of this transcript is a copy
of that in the original manuscript, which cannot now be traced, and is

198 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

therefore probably destroyed, leaving the present transcript the only copy
known of these ancient Poems, which, in every respect, deserve the atten-
tion of lovers of ancient Italian poetry. See also No. 739 in the present
Catalogue.

872 Eime Antiche folio. jSjec. xix. on paper

A transcript from early manuscripts, ready for the press. The authors contained
are : Ser Bonagiunta Orbicciani da Lucca, Piero delle Vigne, Dino Fresco-
baldi Fiorentino, Francesco Rinuccini, Simone Serdini da Siena decto
Saviozo, Ser Lapo Gianni, &c. Many of these Rime are unpublished.

873 Eime yarie 4to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

This volume contains Italian Poems, chiefly amorous, by Giulio Strozzi,
Salviati, Cibo, Duca di Mantova, 0. Rinuccini, Cicognini, Caporali,
Adimari, &c. &c; Latin Epigrams and Verses (some Macaronic) by
Pope Urban VIII, J. P. Orlandi, B. Viviani, Salvini, &c. &c. Several of
these Poems are in the autograph of their various authors who are well
known in the history of Italian literature. Some are of a free character ;
for instance, the Macaronic Poem, De Zanina et Marito, which begins
with " In die dominico gambis dum staret apertis — Supra sedens portam
bella Zanina suam," etc. We were not able to find any mention of this
poem either in the very interesting Macaroneana, by M. De Le Pierre, or in
the excellent article on the Macaronic poetry, by M. G. Brunet, published
in the first volume of the Bibliophile Beige.

874 Rinaldi (Giovanni de, Ferrarese) Vari e diversi Ritratti delle Virtudi

et Vizi ; delle Scienze et Arti ; delle Allegrezze e Mestizie ; e d'Altri
Affetti e Naturali Potenze che pnono servire non solo a valorosi et
inamorati Cavaglieri in occasioni de Bagordi, Giostre e Tornei. ma
anco a Pittori et a Scoltori folio. S^ec. xvii. on paper

Autograph unpublished manuscript, consisting of several hundred pages of a
highly valuable work, undertaken at the request of Gasparo Venturino,
who, according to Borsetti, lived about 1600, and whom the author describes
as " Pittore nostro Ferrarese mio carissimo amico." It appears to have
been the rough notes for an alphabetical work intended for the use of
painters and sculptors, a great portion being afterwards copied by the
author, and corrected throughout. The author is not mentioned by Tira-
boschi, or other biographers that we have been able to peruse.

875 Eoberti Sermo de Fine Mundi et alise Conciones

Mo. S^EC. xiv. ON PAPER

Written on a beautiful paper with a gloss to appear like vellum. It is very
difficult to trace the author of these Sermons amongst so many (chiefly
English) Roberti who wrote Sermons, and whose names are quoted by
Fabricius.

876 Eoddi (Filippo) " Dottor di Legge Ferrarese," della Nobilta della Citta

di Ferrara et delle F'amiglie nobili di quella 4>to. SiEC. xvii. on paper

An autograph unpublished manuscript, written in or about 1620, with marginal
additions. Ughi (Dizionario Storico degli Uomini illusiri Ferrcwesi, vol. II,
p. 126), makes this author a professor in 1528, and dying " non molto
vecchio ;" but this must be either a mistake of confounding an earlier
namesake with the writer of the Annali Ferraresi (claimed in his Preface to
the present Treatise as written by himself, many years previously), or Roddi
must have been above 100 years old when he died, for here, in the Preface,
he distinctly mentions that his fourth book concludes with the year 1600,
and in the work itself (p. 19) has the following sentence : " dall' anno 1221
fino al presente che sono anni 399," thus clearly showing that this passage
was written in 1620. The author states in the preface, that he compiled
this work (which was unknown to Ughi) from 66 manuscripts. We were
unable to find any mention of this work either in the Archivio Storico
Ilaliano, or in the Catalogo clci Manoscritti del Matrchese G. Capponi.

THE LIBRI MANUSCEIPTS. 199

877 Eoma. Relatione della Corte Eomana composta estemporaneamente da

un Personnaggio per Servitio di sua Eccellenza if Sig. Marchese
Clemente Vitelli Ambasciadore straordinario al Sommo Pontefice
Innocentio XII. per S. A. E. il Granduca Toscano Cosmo III.

4ito. Smc. xvii. on paper

A very interesting manuscript, containing Lives of all the then living Cardinals,
with the most curious and private information respecting them. For
instance, it is stated (page 103) that Cardinal Camus (made a Cardinal by
Pope Innocentius XI in 1686) had only a few years previously prostituted
the sacrament by giving the communion to a pig at Fontainebleau. The
account of the scandalous conduct of Cardinal Ratzioyouki (p. 107, &c.) is
also extremely curious, and would be sought in vain elsewhere. Very
likely this Relatione agrees, in a great portion at least, with the work
described under the No. 1155 in the Catcdogo dei Manoscritti del Marchese
G. Capponi.

878 Eomancero. Collecion de Eomances e Glosas Espanoles

4it0. &JEC. xix. ON PAPER

This manuscript is in the handwriting of the celebrated German poet Tieck,
and contains several extremely rare poetical romances of chivalry (Floriseo,
Baldovino, El Danes Urgel, Reynaldo de Montalva, Los doze Pares de
Francia, Roldan, &c. &c.) written during the fifteenth century, and col-
lected by Tieck very probably for publication.

879 Romans de la Rose, " Ou lart damours est toute enclose " (commence

par Guillaume de Lorris et acheve par Jean de Meung diet Clopinel)
calf folio. Smc. xiv. on vellum

Written in double columns in the first part of the fourteenth century by an
English scribe, and adorned with fourteen illuminations in gold and colours,
executed in the style of early English art. Amongst these paintings is a
portrait of Jean Clopinel, (with his name written over it), seated at his
desk writing, probably taken from the original, as the manuscript is
undoubtedly cotemporary with the age of the Continuator, who is supposed
to have died in Paris about 1322. This portrait is the more important
because it represents him as a friar. The value of the manuscript is
further enhanced by the fact of its presenting the old text as the authors
wrote, without any attempt of the transcribers to substitute other expres-
sions for what the more modern copyists chose to call obsolete, a mania
carried to such a height in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (chiefly in
the editions) , as completely to alter not only the language but even the facts
narrated. In spite of all its defects, the Roman de la Rose, at once the
fashion on its appearance, continues to be regarded by the French as one
of the most important as well as most ancient monuments of their language
and poesy. Like the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, by the ingenuity and
naivete displayed in the construction of the poem the reader is rendered
more indulgent to the sallies of wit, even though occasionally obscured by
an abuse of erudition and imagination. There is a charm reigning through-
out, that even induces modern readers to pardon the author for the dirt
with which he has outraged decency in some of his episodes which, through-
out, are rich in tales and satiric traits of character, but which were most
severely censured four centuries ago by the celebrated J. Gerson, who, in
one of his sermons, spoke of this work in the following terms :

" Si esset mihi liter Romancii de Rosa, qui esset unicus et valeret mille pecu-
niarum libras, comburerem cum potius quam ipsum venderem ad publicandum eum
sicut est. Si scirem ipsurn (Joannem Meldunensem) non egisse poenitentiam, non
potius rogarem pro eo, quam pro Juda."

Fortunately the French collectors did not pay any more attention to
those anathemas of the Chancellor of the University of Paris than the
Italians paid to the less angry but, at the same time, strong expressions of

200 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

Se- Antonino against Dante, Boccaccio, etc. (See No. 59 in the present
Catalogue).

At the end there are some additional verses, written during the fifteenth
century

" Par la grant hayne cTanverse
Qui dedans faulx semblant converse,
Fu Clopinel aux camps convert
Pour ceu qu'il et voir descouvert, &c."

880 Romant de la Rose " Ou lart damours est toute enclose " (commence

par Guillaume de Loris et acheve par Jean de Meun diet Clopinel)
" veaufauve" gilt edges folio. S^ec. xiv. on yellum

A very early and tine manuscript of this celebrated poem, probably written
shortly after its completion, by an English or Anglo-Norman Scribe. It
is adorned with numerous capitals and eighteen miniature paintings, exe-
cuted in gold and colours, by an early British artist, having the first page
decorated also with an elegant border, and the illumination at the com-
mencement of the continuation by Jean de Meun, being a portrait of the
Poet. The last three leaves have been supplied by a more recent scribe.
The text is very good, and contains numerous valuable various readings.

881 BoNDEAULX EN BlME FRANCHISE

calf extra folio. Sjec. xv-xvi. on vellum

Beautifully written by a French Scribe, about the end of the fifteenth or be-
ginning of the sixteenth century, with a great number of illuminated initials.
A former possessor has written on the fly leaves, that this is nothing more
than the collection of Rondeaulx printed in 8vo. at Paris in 1527, attribu-
ted to the celebrated P. Gringoire. But such is not the case, for on com-
paring this manuscript with the above edition (of which a copy formerly
belonging to the " Bibliotheca Regia " of Paris, is in the King's library at the
British Museum) we found, that although the edition contains a number of
Rondeaulx which are in this manuscript, yet there are important various
readings, and even several Rondeaulx which are not printed therein. For
instance, the first Rondeau, Par faulx rapport maintz hommes vertueux, in
the manuscript is entirely different from the same in the edition, in which
it begins with Par faulx raportzje me voys esperdw, in fact the whole of the
Rondeau being different except the Refrain, Par faulx rapport. The second
Rondeau of the manuscript (Pour bien regner fault estre liberal), is not in the
printed collection, &c. &c. Amongst the numerous Rondeaulx contained
in this manuscript, but not in the edition, there is one " En pen de temps
propos de femme change,1' which, no doubt, was imitated .by Francis I, King
of France, in his celebrated song : Souvent femme varie. Without entering
into any further details, we may add, that this fine manuscript (which con-
tains several hundred Rondeaulx, and at the end some additional lines in
prose and verse, addressed to some lady by her lover) is a true gem
for the Collector of Ancient French Poetry.

882 Kossetti (Jo. Alfonso, " Ferrarese ") Principio Mezzo e Fine per intcn-

dere la militare Architettura, slightly stained
nld red morocco folio. Sjec. xvii. (1653-67) on paper

An autograph unpublished manuscript, with numerous coloured drawings by
the author himself. Prefixed are the Arms of Pope Clement IX, and Cardinal
Rossetti, in gold and colours. The author appears to have commenced
this work in 1645, " doppo essere tomato d' Inghilterra," and to have
intended to dedicate his production to Pope Alexander VII, whose Arms
are painted in the corner of one of the large drawings, although cut out at
the commencement and those of Clement IX substituted, with the word
Clemente pasted over Alessandro below. The upper portion of the leaves
of this very curious manuscript is water-stained.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 201

883 Rossignoli (Nicolo) Oratione nella Yenuta del Clarissirno Proveditor

Chr. Cannale a Zara mdxxxxxv. adi xx Aprile

4:to. Sjec. xvi. (1555) on paper

An unpublished and autograph manuscript. Prefixed is a Sonnet, by Rossignoli,
addressed to Cristofero Cannale Proveditor dell' Armata. The author is
not mentioned by Quadrio or Tiraboschi.

884 Rouelle (G. F.) Procedes Chimiques, (Annee 1752). Maniere de

peindre les Indieimes dont on se servoit chez M. le Due a Chantilly.
Maniere de fabriquer les Toilles peintes dans l'lnde telle que M.
Beaulieu Capitaine de Vaisseau l'a fait executer devant luy a Pon-
dichery 4<to. Smc. xviii. on paper

An interesting volume for Cotton Manufacturers. Rouelle was one of the greatest
Chymists that France has produced. This manuscript contains several
curious drawings, and a list of the singular chemical hieroglyphics used by
the alchemists, and which Rouelle employed up to the year 1752.

885 Rtjefo or Kusso (Laurentio de Urbe, dicto) Libro de la Gene-

rations et Guida, Infermita et Cura deli Cavalli (reducto
in Lingua Italiana per Fratrem Antonium de Barulo seu Barlecta)

folio. Sjec. xv. (1422) on vellum

This valuable manuscript, finely written in double columns, was executed for
Nicholas III. Marquis of Este and Ferrara as is apparent from the colo-
phon : " Explicit liber menescalcise equorum compositus a Laurentio dicto
Ruzo de Urbe Marescalco et Familiare quondam Reverendissimi Patris et
Domini Domini Neapoleonis et Sancti Adriani Dyaconi Cardinalis, trans-
latus in laycam (sic pro laicam seu Italicam) linguam per Fratrem Anto-
nium de Barulo seu Barlecta, quorum animse requiescant in pace ambo,
Anno Domini 1422, scriptus pro 111. et excelso Domino Domino Nicolao
3° Marchione Estensi ac Ferrarise in temporalibus et spiritualibus Vicario
pro Sancta Romana Ecclesia Generali." This work possesses an additional
value for the history of scientific discovery, as Ruzo is the earliest known
author who has given recipes for the manufacture of a sort of fulminating
powder, by adding mercury, in making what he calls Polvere del Trono.
The first capital has been cut out by some Goth, which renders the first
chapter defective of a few words. Although a little spoiled by the scribe,
the translation by Antonio di Barolo or Barletta is executed with con-
siderable elegance and purity of language, but it has never been printed, for
the name of the translator does not appear even in the work of Maz-
zuchelli, who mentions other writers calling themselves Barolo, Barulo,
and Barletta. The work of Laurent Rutius or Rufus, &c, was the
text-book from which so many works on farriery have been made, generally
preserving the name of the original author, but so altering and adding
everywhere, as to make entirely new works as is the case with this
manuscript. In fact, the present manuscript contains a totally different
work from the "Arte de cognoscer la natura del Cavael (sic) .... coposita
per miser zorda russo," translated into Italian by Frate Gabrielo Bruno in
1492, and published (at Venice in the same year?) without date in 4to.

886 Ruspagiarius (M. Antonius) de Epidemia et de Morbo Gallico —

Ejusdem, Tractatus Chiragrarum et Podagrarum frigidarum et

calidarum et de Vulneribus et Epilepticis

Svo. Sjec. xvi. (1547) on paper
An unpublished manuscript, prepared for publication by the author's brother,
who has prefixed a preface addressed to his nephew, dated "Regii nil Nonas
Sextilis mdxlvii." On the fly-leaves, at the beginning and end, are numerous
medical recipes and secrets, to many of which the names of the authors are
prefixed, one being headed " Pretioso Elettuario del Medico del Re d'lnghil-
terra, <£c." Neither the work nor the author himself, who was of Hcggio
di Modena, are quoted by Tiraboschi, either in the Storia della Lctteratura
Italiana, or in the Biblioteca Modencse,

202 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

887 Sab'at Asrar-al-Illahiyah, or " Nuzhat-al-Naftis." The Seven Revela-

tions of God, or the Delight of the Soul. (An Arabic Christian
work, containing seven chapters on the Birth of Christ, Moses,
David, Solomon, the Soul, Death, and the Day of Judgment. By
two Priests named Rahiyar and Kasis, written at Bawiina in Egypt,

A.D. 1471) folio. SJEC. XV. ON PAPER

An interesting work which seems perfectly unknown.

888 Sabatier (Andre, ancien Prefet) Memoire sur la Dette publique et

Apercu de ma nouvelle Opinion sur les Banques

folio. Sjec. xix. ON PAPER

Two valuable papers signed by the author, and dated 14 Fevrier, 1815. Sabatier,
who under Napoleon I. filled the offices of " Administrateur du Departement
de la Seine et Prefet de la Nievre," was one of the ablest writers on Political
Economy. An autograph letter by him, dated Paris, 15 May, 1817, is
prefixed.

889 Sabini (Angeli) Paradoxa in Juvenali 4to. S^c. xv. (1474) on paper

From the colophon at the end, this would appear to be the identical manuscript
from which Sachsel and Golsch printed their edition at Rome in 1474.
The Corrections and the Creek Quotations are perhaps in the autograph of
Sabinus himself.

890 Sacerdotio (Del) del Glorioso IN". Salvatore M. Tesu Christo de Lingua

Grreca in Lingua Latina tradotta da Er. Philelpho al S. P. Pio IV. e
vulgarizata da Grabrielle Poeta JNobile Bolognese e dedicata a Ma-
donna Zinevra di Bentivogli 4to. S^ec. xv. on vellum

Elegantly written on pure vellum, with illuminated Capitals, and having the
Bentivoglio Arms richly 'painted in gold and colours at the bottom of the
Dedication.

891 Sacramentaritjm, sive Rititale pervetttstum Miss.a:, Baptismi

aliortjmque Sacramentorum 4tto. S^c. ix. (circa 802) on vellum

This important manuscript was, in the opinion of Dom Martene, the learned
author of the Treatise de antiquis Ecclesice JRitibus, and to whom an Extract
from it had been forwarded, apparently of the Reign of Charlemagne,
and an examination of its contents is confirmatory of that opinion, for we
are thereby enabled to fix the time of the writing as being not earlier than
800, nor later than 804. To prove this, the following extract is merely
necessary (See reverse of leaf xv) :

"Oremus et pro christianissimo imperatore nostro ill. ut deus et dominus noster
subditas illi faciat omnes barbaras naciones ad nostram perpctuam pacem. Orenius
semper Deus in cujus manu sunt omnium potestates et omnia jura regnorum
respice ad cliristianum francorum romanorumque benignus imperium ut gentes qua?
in sua feritate confidunt potencia? tua? dextera conprimantur,"

These words can only apply to Charlemagne and his descendants until the
time of Charles the Fat, that is, from 25 December, 800, to 11 November,
887, for they alone were Emperors, as well as Kings of France. Having
thus definitively fixed the time of the manuscript to be within the ixth
century, it becomes almost an absolute certainty that the barbaras naciones or
gentes quai in sua feritate confidunt can be none other than the Saxons, who
were entirely subdued in 804. There are many other proofs, scattered
throughout the Services, that it must have been written prior to 809, but
as these are very carefully pointed out by some learned Benedictine in his
learned Notes, written on seven leaves of vellum, prefixed, we content our-
selves to referring to these as furnishing all the information that can be
needed. We shall add that Dom Martene deeply regretted that he had not
become acquainted with this invaluable manuscript before the publication
of his work, as it would have afforded some extremely curious additions

THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS. 203

to the History of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church in the early ages
of Christianity, and which would be sought in vain elsewhere. Without
entering into more minute details, we must direct the attention of the
learned to the ancient abreviation ill. being placed in the sentence
above mentioned, instead of the letter N used in the ninth century (but
not in the early part of it) to indicate an indefinite person. But a
much more important point, is that the Creed, or Belief of the Apostles,
which here (leat xix) in the rubric is called credo in unum, does not
contain the word Filioque, which became so celebrated in 809 for the great
discussion to which it gave rise at the Concilium Aquisgranense (council
of Aix la Chapelle), consequently affording another proof of the antiquity
of the manuscript, the word Filioque having been added, between two
lines, by an old, but more recent hand than the manuscript itself. The
whole creed shows so many material differences from the present text
that, in a matter of such importance, we think it proper to give here
at least a portion of it, premising however that several words or letters
have been erased and replaced by others, in a later writing although
still of the ninth century. The words or letters erased and now illegible,
we have marked by putting dots (thus ) and the alterations or correc-
tions, which generally are inserted between two lines, by printing within
two [ ] :

" Credo in unum dm patrem omnipotentem. factorem cosli & terrae. Uisibilium
omnium & inuisibilium. Et in unum dnm ih'm xpm filium dl unigeiiitum [& ex]
de patre natum ante omnia secla [dm de do]. Lumen de lumine dm uerum de do
uero [genitum] non factum, etc., etc."

This manuscript is written in red and black, in very rude Carlovingian
characters, having some considerable portion of it written in beautiful rustic
capital letters. It belonged to the celebrated Abbaye de Luxeuil (see also
No. 139, 495, &c. in the present Catalogue, and the Voyage Litteraire, vol. I,
part. 1, p. 168). To the paleographist it affords many proofs of having been
written at the very beginning of the ninth century. (See facsimile) .

892 Sacramentarittm G-regorianum, cum Appendice et Calendario

in the original binding, with clasp square folio. SiEC. x-xi. ON yellum

This very early Service Book, slightly imperfect, is written in a fine bold
hand, with the rubrics in red ink, and chiefly in uncial or capital rustic
letters. The Music of that sort called neumes is very important as fur-
nishing us with the Chants used in the early Roman Church for the Mass
and other Services. To any one writing on the gradual changes that
have taken place in the Roman Catholic Liturgies, early manuscripts
like the present are of the highest value. It is evident that a portion of
this manuscript, the ink of which was perhaps fading, must have been re-
inked some centuries ago. This manuscript, consisting of 131 leaves, some
of which are a little damaged, contains a long modern dissertation intended
to prove that it is much older than we suppose. (See facsimile) .

893 Sa'dI (Muslih-al-Dm) the " Gulistan" (or Rose Garden), in Persian

4<to. Sjec. xviii. on paper

A well written Persian manuscript, but wanting some pages, to the middle of
the seventeenth Hikayat, at the commencement.

894 Sa'dI (Muslih-al-Dln) the "Gulistan," (or Eose Garden)

in native binding folio (104 leaves). S^ec. xviii. on paper

895 Salat-al-MasIh, or " Saifat-al-Namaz-I-IswI." In Arabic and Coptic

richly or?iamcnted morocco binding, tooled in the Oriental style, in case

Vlmo. SvEC. xvii. on glazed paper

Embellished with curious illuminations and delineations of King David, St.
Anthony, a Madonna and Child, &c. This is a very fine specimen of
Coptic ornamental art. (See also No. 618 in the present Catalogue).

204 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

896 Sala (Bornio Domenico da) Epistola ad Illustrissimum Principem et
Excellentissimum Doininum Dominum Borsium Clarissimum Ducem
Mutmae, . . . ac Marchionem Estensem. Italice

4ito. SiEC. XV. ON VELLUM

This letter on the Duties of a Prince is addressed to Borso d'Este, reigning
Duke of Ferrara, who died in 1471. It is most interesting but does not
appear to have ever been printed. In it the author quotes, entire, the
Sonnet of Petrarch, commencing : ' '

" Poi che voi et io piu volte habiam provato "

altering it and introducing his own name in the Sonnet. Bornio della
feala was a Bolognese, and Professor of Jurisprudence in his own countrv
much esteemed as a friend by Filelfo, who addresses several letters to
him. In 1459, when Pope Pius II. visited Bologna, Bornio spoke the
complimentary oration, and the Pope, in his annals of that year, praises
the orator for his learning, eloquence, and beautiful delivery

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 205

SEVENTH DAY'S SALE.

LOT

897 Salomonis (Eilii David Regis et Prophetse) Liber Expositions

Sompniorum ex Lingua Ebraica in Latinum, translatus Sermonem

4it0. S-EC. XV. ON VELLUM

Beautifully written on vellum, with the initial letter to each of the six books
illuminated in gold and colours. The chapters are marked throughout, and
have the capital commencing- eacli painted in gold and blue alternately.
The colophon reads : — " Completus est liber sompniorum salomonis filii
david. Spectabilis & eximii artium & medicine doctoris domini ma-
gistri Joseph de Castronovate ducalis phisici." Although at the begin-
ning it is stated that this singular work was written in Hebrew, and after-
wards translated into Latin, we do not find any mention of it in De Rossi
or elsewhere, and very probably it was a Middle-Age forgery. Perhaps
the true author was the Joseph de Castronovate whose name appears
at the end. The work, divided into six books, is considerable, and it
seems not only unpublished but even quite unknown. Like all ancient
and fine manuscripts on Divination it seems to have been held in great
repute, as from a rather old note at the beginning we find that it was pur-
chased for 450 Milan lire (about sixteen pounds sterling).

898 Salomonis clavicula 4<to. Smc. xvi. on paper

Imperfect at the end.

899 Salustii (Gaii Crispi) Belli Catilinarii Historia et Liber de Bello

Jugurthino
in the original oak hoards 4to. Sjec. xv. (1462) on paper

A valuable manuscript, written in Italy, with the following colophon, "Laws Deo
et Christiferce Marice Jana die quinta Aprilis MCCCC & 62." It came from the
celebrated Saibante Gianfilippi Collection of Verona. On the margins of
the text, which is excellent, there are various readings taken at an early
period from other manuscripts, and the work is divided into numerous
chapters with explanatory headings, which are not in the editions. At the
beginning there is a Remedium migrance, followed by a biography of Sallust,
beginning thus: "In principio istius libri sciendum est quod Salustius
nobilissimus cms romanus fuit qui primarie sue etatis tempore, etc." No
doubt this Biography, apparently unpublished, was written by an ancient
commentator. At the end there is an abstract of Eutropius concerning
Juffurtha.

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900 Salvini (Ant. Maria) Orazione funebre fatta in Morte della Serma Du-

chessa Vittoria della Rovere Medici folio. Sjsc. xviii. on paper

This Orazione by the celebrated Salvini was printed at Florence in 1715. This
manuscript contains several alterations in the handwriting of the author.

901 Sampieri (Cavaliere Mario) Viaggio fatto come Capitano della Capitana

con due Galere del S. Gran Duca da Livorno a Napoli e poi in
Spagna a portare il Cardinale d'Aragona Vice-Re di JNapoli che si
restituiva al Suo Arcivescovato di Toledo folio. 1666, on paper

This work, not mentioned by Moreni, is in all probability unpublished.

206 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

902 Sanazarii (M. Ant.) Testamentum (Anni 1530)

folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper
A curious document.

903 Sardegna. Abdicazione del Ee Vittorio folio. S^c. xviii. on paper

An important historical document, as the reasons for the sudden Abdication are
stated therein.

904 Sardegna. Abdicazione del Ee Vittorio 4>to. SiEC. xviii. on paper

Imperfect at the end.

905 Sardegna. Scritture per la Santa Sede e per lo Ee di Sardegna

citron morocco, with the Arms of Lord Stuart de Botlesay on sides

folio. Sjec. xviii. (1731-32) on paper
An official transcript of the various highly interesting documents respecting the
£ope s dispute with the King of Sardinia as to Ecclesiastical Immunity
borne ot these papers, relating to the Concision Segreti, have always been
kept m the strictest secrecy.

906 Sarpi (Fra Pauli, " Yeneti ") Epistolarum Liber, Latino Idiomate con-

scriptus ad Lechassier et (una) ad Casaubonum
old French citron morocco, gilt edges folio. S^c. xvii. on paper

A fine and uncastrated copy of these celebrated letters, which relate fully not
only to the history of the Reformation but also to the literary history of
Europe at the beginning of the seventeenth century.

907 Sarpi (Fra Paulo) Apologia contro Card. Bellarmino sopra la Validita

delle Scommumche Uo. S^c. xvii. on paper

908 Sarpi Opinione del P. Fra Paolo Servita Consultor di Stato in qual

modo debba governarsi la Eepublica di Venetia

folio. SiEc. xviii. on paper

This is the well-known Tiberian work which many authors contend could not

VTrento ^^ ^ ^ aUth°r °f the Histor3r of the Concilia di

909 Sarpi (Fra Paolo) Consulta di Stato in qual Modo debba governarsi la

Eepublica di Venezia 4to. SiEC. xvii. on paper

This manuscript bears the date of 1615, but does not seem to be so old.

910 Sarpi (Fra Paolo) Eicordi di Fra Paolo Servita alii Sig. Inquisitori d'

Stato l'Anno 1615 $MCm xvii# 0N PAPER

This is the same work as that contained in the two previous manuscripts.

911 Satire. 2 vol. in 1, vellum Ylmo. SiEc. xviii. on paper

Very distinctly written, and apparently prepared for publication. Amongst
these Italian Satires are two on Tobacco, and some relating to the Venetian
habits of life of a free character.

912 Sauveur (Joseph) Traite de Mecanique

2 vol. 4to. S.ec. xviii. on paper
An unpublished Treatise of this eminent Mathematician, de V Academic des
Sciences at Paris, chiefly known for his Discoveries in Acoustics. This
work, wth excellent drawings, is important for the History of Engines.

913 Sauveur (Joseph) Geometrie Pratique 4to. S^c. xviii. on paper

Very distinctly written, with a great number of elaborate drawings. This
unpublished work was unknown to the celebrated Prony when he wrote
his biographical article on Sauveur.

THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS. 207

914 SAYONAROLLiE (Michaelis) Opus de Balneis et Termis naturalibus

omnibus Italle, original binding Ado. S^ec. xv. (1442) on vellum

Finely written in an Italian hand. This celebrated author was Physician to
Leonello Prince d'Este, and died about the year 1440. This manuscript
is dated mccccxlii. at end. The work was very popular during the
fifteenth century.

915 Scaligeri (Josephi) Notse Autographse ad varios Auctores. Grsece et

Latine — Opuscula varia, SS. Patrurn, Grrammaticorum, &c. Grsece
et Latine ab ipso Scaligero exscripta Ato. Sjec. xvi. on paper

Autograph manuscripts of this celebrated scholar, containing : Notse ad Seneca3
Tragcedias ; Excerpta ex Glossis; Epistola ad J. Stadium ; Notse in Sueto-
nium ; Poemata varia ; Procli Opuscula Grsece ; Dosithei Glossce ex MS.
Monasterii S. Galli ; Excerpta ex Glossario C. Puteani ; Notse ad Theophi-
lum ; Epistolse ad A. Caudinium et Vertunianum ; Variae Lectiones ; Notaa
in Hesiodum; SS. Patrum Opuscula Grseca; Opuscula Mathematica,
varia. This is a most important autograph collection, consisting of several
hundred pages, and containing several Greek Opuscula, hitherto unpub-
lished. It contains also several interesting Catalogues of Latin and Greek
manuscripts (several unpublished) existing then in the library of the Patri-
arch of Constantinople, and in other libraries now dispersed. The volume
contains also some autograph papers of Dousa, and a paper (apparently
autograph also) of the celebrated mathematician, Chr. Grienberger, on a
new Speculum Ustorium. (See also No. 1171 in the present Catalogue).

916 Scareantoni (Francesco, " Pistojese ") Sermoni, Massime morali, &c.

the cover formed of a deed on parchment, written in 1363 by Egidio
Celli Notajo da Todi Ado. StEC. xv. et xvi. on paper

As this author is quite unknown to Tiraboschi and Zacharia, the work in all
probability, is unpublished. It contains a great number of abstracts from
Seneca, Sallust, &c, and several official speeches delivered before or on
behalf of the Signoria (di PistoiaJ. Only a J. Jacob Scarfantoni, who died
in 1748, is quoted by Zacharia in his Bibliotheca Pistorisiensis.

917 Scelta d'alcuni Modi di dire cavati da diversi Autori

Ato. SiEC. xvii-xviii. on paper

This Scelta, written about the end of the Seicento, contains the most extraordinary
concetti of that century proposed for imitation. For instance :

" Ma non prima fu compiuto quel secolo eke mancando per tante fronti beate le
stelle del firmamento, si die' di piglio ai pianeti, e con un Sole segnossi il petto a
Tommaso."

918 Sciaban (Baron di) il Bombardiere Veneta essaminato dal suo Generale

tradotto in Italiano per Ordine dell' Ecc. Collegio di Venetia

Ado. S^c, xvii. (1641) on paper

919 Scioppii (Gasparis) Examen Machiavelli Operum, in quo illius Scripta

prout et Censorum ejusdem diligenter perpenduntur

folio. S^c. xvi-xvii. on paper

Unpublished, as, although written about 1594, this work on Machiavelli was
never allowed to be printed. It is chiefly against Possevino. This is a
very interesting volume, consisting of 171 leaves, and seems to be
the original manuscript intended for the printer. It contains autograph
corrections of the author and begins with a curious remark respecting the
works of Macchiavelli having been first printed with the approbation and
privilege of the Pope, and subsequently forbidden.

920 Scoti (Michaelis) Maoica, Arabice cum Interpretatione Latina

original binding, with brass bosses and corners 4ito. S.ec. xvi. on vellum

A very extraordinary unpublished manuscript, of which the Arabic text, with
its very curious diagrams, occupies the first sixteen pages. On page xvii.
commences " Interpretatio et Instructio pro Discipulis sen Amatoribus

208 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

Artis Magicse pro iis scilicet ad quorum manus post obitum meum libellus
iste fortuito aliquando perventurus est," signed Michael Scotus Prage in
Bohemia pridie idibus Februarii mcclxi. In this preface he advises no one
to presume to read the manuscript without the circle, lest he should meet a
dreadful end, and refers him to the author's caution on p. xxi.,

" Aspice, Inspice, pervolve alta sed voce legere Cave."

The name of the " wondrous Michael Scott," or Sir Michael Scott of
Balwearie :

" A wizard of such dreaded fame,
That when, in Salamanca's cave,
Him listed his magic wand to wave,
The bells would ring in Notre Dame ! "

is so familiar to every reader of Scott's " Lay of the Last Minstrel " that
few or none can plead ignorance of his book of "Might," which the Lady
of Branksome sent Sir William of Deloraine to obtain with the strict
injunction :

" Be it scroll, or be it book,

Into it, Knight, thou must not look :

If thou readest, thou art lorn !

Better hadst thou ne'er been born !"

an injunction borne out by the author's " Cave." Dempster, too, in
his Historia Ecclesiastica, tells us that he remembers to have heard in his
youth that the magic books, which were still in existence, could not be
opened without danger, on account of the malignant fiends therein invoked.
Sir Michael Scott's place of burial is unknown, although some have asserted
it to be at Holme Coltrame in Cumberland, and others in Melrose Abbey.
All, however, seem to agree that his books of magic were interred in his
grave, as, after the most diligent search, no traces beyond rumour, such as
Dempster alludes to, could be found of their existence. Satchells, indeed,
pretends that when in 1629 he chanced to be at Burg under Bowness in
Cumberland, one Lancelot Scott

" Shew'd bis written book hanging on an iron pin,

His writing pen did seem to me to be

Of hardened metal, like steel or acumie,"

and said it had not been "read through, nor never will, for no man dare it
do." To prove that the wizzard's fame was not confined to his own
country, we must be content with quoting Dante :
" Quell altro che ne' fiancbi e cosl poco
Michele Scotto fu, che veramente
Delle magicbe frode seppe il gioco.'

Divina Commedia, (Inferno, Canto xx).

921 Scotland. Bicordi di M. M. del 1590 a Sua Beatitudine per miglio-

rare le Cose de' Cattolici nel Regno di Scozia

folio. Sjec. xix. ON PAPER

A transcript of the original document in the Barberini Collection. A very
important State Paper, and very valuable to the historian of the times of
Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth. It contains full particulars
relating to the then most conspicuous men of Scotland, and its perusal
would not have been quite useless even to M. Mignet in composing his
admirable Histoire de Marie Stuart.

922 Seaman (Gu.) Januse Latinitatis vestibulum Turcice redditum

Svo. 8mc. xvii. ON PAPER
An autograph unpublished manuscript in Turkish and Latin.

923 Sedulti Liber Pascalis Carminis — Augustini (S.; Libellus de Dis-

ciplina Christianorum in 1 vol. 4>to. SiEC. xv. on yellum and paper
Written in a very neat Italian hand, the whole of Sedulius, with exception of
the last leaf, being upon vellum.

924 Seoaar (Clarissimi S.) Dictata in J. A. Ernesti Institutionem Novi

Testamenti 4fo. Smc. xix. on paper

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 209

925 Segni (Bern.) Istorie Florentine, con Postille

half russia, uncut folio. Sjec. xvi, ON paper

Prefixed is a certificate of the learned Abate Gelli, librarian of the Maglia-
bechiana of Florence, and of M. Ridolfo Giorgetti, that the manuscript notes
(Postille) are in the autograph of Scipione Ammirato, the Florentine
historian. The text is uncastrated and very good. At the end of the
volume there is the celebrated Lettera of Lorenzino de Medici the murderer
of Alessandro de Medici, with the apology of the fact. This valuable
manuscript is from the Rinuccini library of Florence.

926 Segreti e Bjcette

in the original Venetian binding 4<to. S^ec. xv-xvi. ON vellum

This valuable collection of recipes commences with " Composition de Tholomeo
piu pretiosa de tuto loro." Amongst other curious receipts are some for
making soap, " biancho et perfecto;" ink, "negro et perfecto;" and also
" a cavar machie d' olio de panni o carte," to make colla, cosmetics, &c.
Several have a portion written in cypher.

927 Seguy de Fontigny, Memoire sur 1' Administration des Finances

folio^ SiEc. xviii. (1789) on paper

An autograph document, signed also by the author, and containing historical
inquiries upon the French budget.

928 Sempronio (Gio. Leone, " Nobile Urbinate ") II Conte Ugolino Tra-

gedia, vellum 4<to. Sj3C. xviii. on paper

A curious attempt at a tragedy on a subject to which Dante has given the
greatest celebrity.

929 Seneca (Lucii Annei) Opusctjla Varia. Accedit Epistola B. Bernardi

de Cura et Modo Rei familiaris utilius gubernandse

folio. SMC. XV. ON PAPER

This manuscript appears, from an inscription on the first leaf, to have been the
gift of D. Raymundus de Lupis to the Benedictine Monks of the Congre-
gation of St. Justina, residing in the Monastery of St. Peter " in Glassiati,"
on 20 December, 1482, the Prior D. Floriano de Bologna being the acceptor.
It contains the following Treatises : " Quare bonis optimisque viris multa
mala accidunt ; ad Marciam de Consolatione Filii ; de Brevitate Vitse ; de
Beata Vita ; de Tranquilitate Animi ; quod in Sapientem non cadit ira ;
de Consolatione Fratris ; ad Elbiam matrem suam de Consolatione Filii ;

de Clementia libri II; de Ira libri III; de Beneficiis libri VII; de

quatuor Virtutibus ; de Moribus sive Libero Arbitrio ; de Paupertate ;
de Remediis fortuitorum malorum ; et de Liberalibus Artibus." Although
manuscripts of Seneca are of rather common occurrence, it is difficult to
find good texts like the present one. It is well known that several of the
numerous works contained in this collection are now considered spurious,
although during the fifteenth century they were looked upon as genuine,
and of course copied as such.

930 Senecje (L. A.) Epistolae ad Paulum cum Responsis— Poggii Florentini

an Seni ducere uxorem liceat ? et Epistola ad Cosmum de Medicis de
Agricultura — Pn II. Fortuna — F. Petrarch~J3 Epistola ad Cle-
mentem Papam — Seneca de Moribus, de quatuor Virtutibus ad
Paulutn Apostolum, et de Remediis Fortuitorum
in the original Venetian binding, with brass clasp, on which the lamb
bearing a flag is embossed Ylmo. S^ec. xv. on vellum

This fine little manuscript formerly belonged to the Monasterium de Astino,
and shows on the first leaf a tree with the motto a Vopera, very probably
the emblem of a previous owner. The epistles between St. Paul and Seneca
are spurious, but are a very old work, as they are quoted by St. Augustinus
and St. llieronymus. The Seneca de Moribus and de Remediis, consist
of abstracts from the works of the philosopher, and were compiled before
Vincentius Bellovaccnsis, who wrote during the thirteenth century and

p

210 THE LTBEI MANTTSCEIPTS.

quoted them. The " libri de quatnor virtutibus," which were also ascribed
to Cicero, were written in the sixth century by "Martinus Pannonius,"
Archbishop of Braga, who dedicated them to " Mironi Regi." In the present
manuscript, however, this same work is curiously addressed to St. Paul.
This manuscript offers considerable interest to scholars who are curious in
these ancient forgeries.

931 Senectute (De) Recreakda ad 111. Dom. Cardinalem Paleotum

4<to. Smc. xvi. oisr paper

The Latinity of this Dissertation is exceedingly pure, and for the fund of literary
information it contains the work is well worthy of being printed. The
mention of Cardinals Pole and Allen is very interesting. This manu-
script was formerly in the Saibante Collection at Verona, as appears from
the red number on the cover, all the manuscripts of that celebrated library
being numbered in the same rude manner.

932 Sermo^es Dominicales et Collationes Dominicales

in the original oak hoards 4>to. S^c. xiii. on yellttm

Written by an English scribe, with various additions in prose and verse, in a
different hand. A portion of the vellum betrays an attempt to erase an
older manuscript (see especially folio 132). The Arabic numerical figures
deserve attention, as they show the peculiar shape which those figures
assumed in England during the thirteenth century. See also No. 665 in
the present Catalogue.

933 Sermokes de Fide Christiana, half calf Mo. S^;c. xv. on yellum

Written very early, on Italian vellum, with the first page illuminated. These
Sermons are on Texts taken from St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians.

934 Sermoni Dominican' per Avvento, in Nativitate Domini, de Abomina-

tione, de Conceptione Yirginis Maria?, &c. &'c.

4<to. Sjec. xvi. oisr paper

All these Sermons are in Italian, written in a very legible hand, with the words
" Subjecta pedibus Sanctse Romanae Ecclesise," generally added at the end
of each.

935 Seryii Honorati (Mauri, " Grammatici ") Commentarii in Libros

(iEneidos, Georgicorum et Bucolicorum) Virgilii Maronis
half hound morocco folio. S^ec. xiv. on paper

Servius, the Grammarian of the fifth century, was a friend of Macrobius, who,
introducing him as one of the Speakers in his Saturnalia, not content with
describing him "juxta doctrinam mirabilis et amabilis," hails him "non
solum adolescentium qui tibi sequsevi sunt, sed senum quoque omnium
doctissime." His Commentary on Virgil is the most important we possess
upon that author, and, in spite of the many futile or ridiculous observations
it contains, is truly valuable for its important and curious remarks. Unfor-
tunately, through the ignorance or bad faith of copyists, the text has come
down to us in a very disfigured state, and no printed edition can be relied
on. In comparing this manuscript with the first Roman edition of Servius
(1469-1470), as well as with the edition published at Gottingen, in 1825,
by M. Lion, we found that this important manuscript, of which the text is
very pure, contains a great number of valuable various readings. For
instance, almost at the beginning of the commentary on the iEneis, which
here is placed first, we find :

In the Manuscript. In the Editio Princeps.

" Virgilii hec est vita. Patre Marone " Virgilii vita hsec est. Orfrus fuit

matre a Maia." patre Virgilio figulo . Matre maia."

While M. Lion reads, with only a slight difference :

" Virgilii hsec vita est. Ortus est patre Virgilio, matre Maja."
This manuscript consists of 237 leaves in double columns, with illuminated
capitals and emblazoned arms on the first page. The text of Virgil is
written in red ink, and the commentary in black.

THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS. 211

936 Seryii G-rammatici Expositio in tria Yirgilii Opera (Bucolica, Georgica

et ^Eneidos Libros), calf folio. S^c. xv. (1430) on paper

Very distinctly written, with the name of the scribe and date : " Finito libro
isto detur gloria xpo ano 1430, 26 Mensis Junii. Johanes Moguntinus f."
This seems undoubtedly in the autograph of Johannes Fust, called also
Johannes Moguntinus (as he sometimes styled himself), the celebrated
partner of Gutenberg. This valuable manuscript contains also a great
many various readings which deserve peculiar attention. For instance, at
the beginning of the commentary on the iEneis, the sentence already quoted
from the previous manuscript is here as follows: " Virgilii hsec vita:
fait civis mantuanus," without any reference to his father or mother. At
the beginning of the volume there is, under the title of Prologus to the
commentary, the Vita Virgilii, commonly attributed to Donatus, but
which here is (perhaps) more properly given as an introduction, written by
Servius himself, to his large commentary on Virgil's Poems. Although
the beginning of this Vita is (with some various readings) like the printed
one, still it differs considerably from the editions, and does not contain the
well-known tales, evidently of Oriental origin, about Augustus being the
son of a baker, &c. : stories which even the celebrated Heyne did not
disdain to introduce in his classical edition of Virgil. At the end of this
Vita, the following passage connects even more closely this life with the
commentary. " Quoniam de autore summatim diximus de ipso carmine jam
dicendum est.1' A small portion of the first two leaves, which was decayed,
has been supplied recently in such a manner as to make it appear that
the author of the commentary was Johannes Moguntinus, the transcriber,
and not Servius. whose name is still to be read at the beginning of the
Exposicio in Bucolicon. (See facsimile) .

937 Servii Honorati (Mauri " Grammatici") Commentarii in Virgilii

Libros Bucolicorum, Georgicorum et JEneidorum, cum Virgilii Vita
(scripta a Donato ?) folio. S^ec. xv. on paper

This manuscript was written in Italy, with fine borders and initials in gold and
colours, and, in regard to the text, affords a great number of valuable
readings. The sentence which we have quoted from the previous manu-
scripts is herein as follows :

" Virgilii autem sub brevitate hec vita est Ortus est ex patre Virgilio vel
marone figulo matre vero Maia."

The Vita Virgilii prefixed is that which is commonly attributed to
Donatus, and contains also a great number of valuable various readings ;
for instance, at the very beginning when Valpy's edition has "patre
Marone ; quern quidam opificem figulum ; plures magi . . tradiderunt," we
read in this manuscript, " patre marone quern quidem opificem figulum
multi : plures autem magi .... tradiderunt." This manuscript has old
marginal corrections by a learned hand ; with the spurious Epitaphium
" Pallas films Evandri " at the end, and on the last leaf the famous letters
of Lentulus to Augustus, and Pilatus to Tiberius.

It is perhaps not superfluous to call the attention of scholars to these
three interesting manuscripts of an author so rich in information respecting
the ancient history of Italy, but of whom, up to the present moment, no
classical edition exists. Although generally manuscripts of Servius
upon Virgil are so scarce, that Hsenel hardly found a dozen of them in
the numerous libraries which he visited throughout Europe, it may be
confidently asserted that the three contained in this present catalogue will
afford the means of giving an entirely new and much improved
text.

938 Severi Stjlpitii Vita Sancti Martini Episcopi — Vita Sancti Ambrosii
(Auctore Paulino Episcopo Nolano) — Homelia Origenis de Maria
et Joseph — Vita IS. Materni — Circultts pro inveniendo numero
epactarum ab Anno presenti 1448 — B. Hierontmi Epistola ad
Heliodorum Episcopum Epitapbii Nepotiani Presbyteri et Epistola
ad Anitiam Demetriadem Virginem (a P. Uarzheim Pelagio Ilcere-

p2

212 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

siarcTios adscripia) — B. Augtjstini Ipponensis Episcopi Epistola ad
Cirillum de Laudibus B. Jheronimi — Jheronimus ad Desiderium
de duodecim Tractatoribus — Saltjtatio Anthonii Vrye ad B. Vir-
ginem Mariam et Puerum Jesum — Optima Recepta pro Oculis, &c.

8vo. Sjec. xv. (1448) on vellum

An interesting collection with this note: u Scriptum colonise p. Wilhlm. Hamer,
1448." On the reverse of folio 149, is the following inscription: " Iste
liber est Illustris Dni Dni Mauritii Comitis de Spegelberch Presb. Embri.
Embricensis et Majoris Ecclesise Coloniensis Canonici, &c." This manu-
script consists of ±50 leaves; the Cir cuius contains old Arabic numerical
figures and moveable circles (volveiles), like those in old astronomical works.

939 Seera. Compendio della Sfera 4to. S^c. xviii. on paper

Written in the way of Question and Answer.

910 Sfondrati (Cardiuale Celestino) Discorsi Spirituali

4ito. Smc. xvii. on paper

These Discorsi by a celebrated opponent of the great Bossuet are unpublished,
and were unknown to Argelati. This is the only Italian work of
Sfondrati. The manuscript has the autograph corrections of the author
himself.

941 -Shahae-al-Din Ahmad Bin-Hajjur-al-Makki (Shaikh), the "Kana'at

al-Murad fi bayan Banat So'ad," A Key or Commentary to the
" Banat-So'ad," a Poetical Panegyric on the Prophet Mohammed,
in Arabic 8vo. S.ec. xviii. on paper

This copy was written anno Hegirse 1147 (a.d. 1733). This is a scarce
work and has never been printed. The Banat-So'ad is mentioned by
Hajl Khalfa, vol. IV. p. 521.

942 Searae-ae-DIn 'Ali-al-YazdI (Mir) " Zafar Namah," the Book of

Victory, otherwise called " Timur Namah," containing the History
of the Life and Deeds of Tamerlane, in Persian
well bound 4<to. Sjec. xix. (1829) on paper

A fine manuscript of the well-known Timur Namah, considered one of the
choicest specimens of Persian literature; well written in Nasta'llk. The
first few pages of the preface are deficient.

943 Sicilia. Processo per li Comissarii deputati per S. M. Don Eerrando

de Aragona Be della Gran Sicilia contra Antonello de Petruciis, &c.
Anno 1486
Modern Transcript, vellum 4to. Smc. xviii. on paper

A valuable Account of that celebrated Conspiracy. This Processo is mostly
written in a sort of Neapolitan dialect. For a Latin edition of this work
see Dibdin, Bibliotheca Spenceriana (vol. VII. p. 102, (Jie Cassano Library,
No. 152).

944 Sikandar Bin-Muhammad, commonly called " Manjhii-Akbar " the

" Mirat-i-Sikandari." A history of the Kings of Gujarat in Persian

folio. SjEC. xviii. on paper

This History runs from the time of Tufar Khan, the founder of the monarchy,
to the suicide of Sultan Muzaft'ar III, the last of the Kings of Gujarat, Anno
Hegiras 1000 (A.D. 1591). The original work was composed Anno Hegirse
1020 (A.D. 1010), forty lunar years after the destruction of the Gujarat
monarchy, by Akbar, Anno Hegirse 980 (A.D. 1572). The manuscript
was copied A.D. 1797.

945 Sivrich (Abbate Antonio) Due Dissertazioni, una sugli OfEzi e la

Costituzione della Logica ; un altra sull' Indole delle Scienze e la
Maniera di trattarle folio. S^ec. xviii. on paper

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 213

946 Solini (C. Julii) Poliystor (sic) de Situ Orbis Terrarum et de
singulis Mirabilibus quae in Mundo babentur

4ito. Sjec. xiii. on vellum (71 leaves)

An important manuscript, containing the text of the work as given by Solinus
himself, in which the Capitulatio differs both from the editions and the
following codex. The text of this is very good, and is divided into chap-
ters, which are quite different from those in lot 947, and the editions. The
headings in this explain the contents much better than those which have
been printed. It contains many interesting various readings, of which we
shall give a single specimen, taken from the beginning of the last chapter
of the Jenson edition (Venice, 1473 in folio):

Manuscript. Edition.

"Chaldee gentis caput babilonia est a Se- " Chaldaeae geutis caput babylonia est

miramide conditatam nobilis ut propter tarn nobilis: ut propter earn Assyrii: et

earn Assirii et Mesopotamia in Babilonie Mesopotamii in Babylonia? nomen tran-

nomen transierint." sierint."

In the two following manuscripts, the name of Semiramis, here introduced
very properly, is wanting, as well as in the Jenson edition. And although
this name was more recently introduced by the best editors (for instance,
in theBiponti edition, 1794), still the three manuscripts of Solinus described
in the present Catalogue contain a number of interesting various readings
which would greatly improve a new edition.

After the work of Solinus, we find in this manuscript a Latin poem,
beginning with :

" Rex pie rex fortis confringens vincula mortis,"

and then a work de virtvtibus Ciborum, followed by other Latin verses,
some juridical cases, etc. At the end there is a long " index in Solinum per
alphabetum," a work of the fifteenth century.

917 SoLiisri (Iulii) de Situ Okbis terrarum . . . sive Polyhistor

vellum small folio. S.ec. xv. oisr vellum

This very fine manuscript, consisting of 114 leaves of the purest vellum, was
written in Italy and has at the beginning of the work a border in the
finest style of Italian art. Prefixed is a Tabula Julij Solini, occupying 24
pages, much more diffuse, and in several portions very different from the
small table which is printed in the old editions of Solinus, for instance in
that of Jenson (Venice, 1473). This volume contains numerous marginal
notes written by the same hand as the whole manuscript, and very pro-
bably transcribed from an older one. There are also important variations
from the editions. It is well known that before the last publication by the
author, the work of Solinus was surreptitiously circulated under the title of
" Collectanea rerum memorabilium," and that subsequently Solinus him-
self issued it again under the name of "Polyhistor." This will account for
the difference in manuscripts, some of which seem to be derived principally
from the first, and others from the second edition. The present manuscript,
with an enlarged index, and the title of " Polyhistor " on the dedication
(commencing by " Quoniam quidam impacientius quam studiosius opus-
culum quern moliebar intercipere properarunt," etc.), is certainly derived
from the work as finally given to the world by Solinus himself.

948 Solini (Julii) Collectafeorum Liber de Mirabilibus Mundi ad
Aduenium familiarem feliciter incipit
russia Svo. Sjec. xv. (1455) on yellum

Elegantly written in Italy, with the date and name of the Scribe : " per maims G.
Campis 1455, die decimo quarto septembris." This manuscript (with the
titl&jLiber de Mirabilibus Mundi, and beginning "Cum et aurium dementia,
etc," without the prefatory matter which is in the previous manuscript and
wherein Solinus explains, that the work was first published without his

214 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

authority) seems to contain the work as surreptitiously circulated. The
two issues of the work offer such differences that the celebrated Salmasius
thought that the author had written two distinct treatises on the same
subject. In manuscript they are very seldom to be found in the same
collection, and, yet the work of Solinus is so important for the geography
and natural history of the ancients, that they both deserve great attention.

949 SotfDAS Ibn-i-Diwan-Mutamell, The " Tarikh-i-Sind," or Account of

Scinde in Persian
oriental binding 4ito. S^c. xix. on paper

A very valuable account of the Sumra tribe, who governed the country of
Scinde, and of its Pargunnahs and Revenue. It appears to have been
written by Sondas, at the request of Captain James McMurdo, who was
Resident at Kutch in 1812. It has never been printed.

950 Sonetti XXVII del Dottor Luca Terenzi contro i Bacchettoni, con

Proemio in Prosa (Inediti) — Poesie piacevoli del Conte Giulio
Montevecchi intitolate La Scorneide (Sonetti XXXVI, inediti) —
Ruspoli (Francesco) Sonetti con la Coda XXIII (Tutti inediti
salvo che quattro stampati nella Hacolta II. delle Poesie da far
rider e le Brigate) — Sonetti del Feroci (I), di Marco Lamberti (III
inediti) del Forzoni (I), di G. B. Fagioli (IX), di Domenico Bozza-
ghi (Entusiasmi XX), del Zoppo Carrozziere (II), e di Santi Casini
(I) — Papint (G-io. Antonio) Bime sdruccioli (IV) nelle quali
dissuade un Amico dalla Poesia. 4fo. S^ec. xviii. of paper

A valuable Collection of inedited Italian Poetry in the autograph of the Col-
lector, Gio. Antonio Papini, the well-known Commentator on Burchiello.
The "Sonetti contro i Bacchettoni," by Dr. L. Terenzi, one of the Acade-
mici della Crusca, who died in 1697, are not in his Collection of Sonetti
printed at Florence in 1687. La Scorneide, is by the Count Giulio di
Montevecchio, who died at Rome in the seventeenth century. Of him,
Quadrio writes : " Compose pur molte Rime assai graziose e piacevoli che
vanno in giro manoscritte." Franceso Ruspoli is considered one of the
writers worthy of being cited by Alberti, who quotes from his published
sonnets. Concerning Marco Lamberti, styled by Quadrio, " Sostenitore
dello stile Bernesco," G. B. Fagioli and the others, see Tiraboschi, &c.
These poems were of too free a character to be published.

951 Spada. Relatione del Negotiato del S. Card. Spada Plenipotentiario di

N. S. nell' Aggiustamente di Pace col Serm0 di Parma mdcxlii —
Lega fatta tra la Ser. Rep. di Venetia e li Ser5111 Gran Duca di Tos-
cana e Modena mdcxliii — Negotiato del S. Card. Bichi i Trattati
di Pace fra la Lega e Barberini mdcxxxxiiii

folio. S.&C. xviii. on paper

Interesting historical documents of which we have been unable to find any
trace in the works that we perused, and which are not mentioned either
in the Arcliivio Storico Italiano or in the Catalogo Dei Manoscritti del
Marchese G. Capponi.

952 Speculator Consiliorum Enigmaticus Nicrocosmi (Microcosmi) —

Versus reperti Hierosolymis cum Prophecia Magistri Samuelis Archi-
synagogi Hierosolymitani, a.d. mcccclxxxxii. — Ovm xvii, &c.

4<tO. SiEC. XVI. ON PAPER

A curious collection ; in the Prophecia it is stated that in the year 1530 the
Antichrist will be born ; and there are verses announcing the pillage of
Rome in 1527. The Odce contain a description of an old painting then
existing in the celebrated monastery of S. Udalricus et Afira.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 215

953 Speculum Viroinis Maro:, Incomeca uno tratato ad laude della

ve- ma- — S. Augustini Regula et Tract atus varii
in the original binding 4ito. S^ec. xv. on paper

The covers are lined with fragments of a very early manuscript, on vellum,
of iEsopian Fabulse in verse. The Speculum is in very good old Italian
and seems unpublished. At the end there is the " Expositione della salve
regina" (14 pages), followed by an old Italian poem, written like prose,
which begins as follows: "Ave Maria delli angeli reina. Ave Maria
somma imperatrice. Ave per cui le colpe anno (sic) ruina. Et per cui le
virtu anno (sic) radice." As according to the Tavola degli autori, printed in
the sixth volume of the great Vocabolario della Crusca, a single manuscript
of the " Expositione della salve regina" formerly known, was then supposed
to be lost, the present one may perhaps be considered as unique.

954 Sphaera (De) cum Commentario folio. Sjec. xiv. on paper

With astronomical diagrams. The beginning of this work, written on twelve
leaves of Bombyx paper (a rather uncommon occurrence in Latin manu-
cripts) is deficient.

955 Sphaera. Tractatus de Spera. Accedit Compendium de Sphera Joannis

de Sacrobosco 4to. Smc. xv. on paper

With diagrams and Arabic numerals.

956 Spineda (Caroli, S. J.) Philosophise Cursus physico-mathematicus in

compendium redactus a Philippo Bernieri

2 vol. Uo. 1767-68, on paper

A learned work, discussing the theories of Newton, Leibnitz, etc., etc.

957 Statuta Anglic, calf extra 12mo. Sjec. xv. on vellum

An interesting collection. The first portion of it is in Norman-French, and
finishes with " Done au Glouc le my meyngne proscheign apres la feste de
seyt Piere, etc." Then follow the Statuta Westmonasterii in Latin.

958 Statuta. Copia Dacciorum et Gabelarum Comunis Argentse

4it0. S^EC. XV. ON PAPER

A very early copy of the " Statuti della Terra d'Argenta nella Provincia di
Ferrara," issued by the Dukes Alberto and Leonello d'Este, concluding with
the year 1446. The volume contains also some letters written by several
Princes of the Este Family, from 1390 to 1476, in connection with these
Statuta, which are partly in Latin and partly in Italian. They contain
amongst other very curious information, the fact, that four centuries
ago, both white sugar and muscavado were already in use at Argenta.

959 Statuti della Dispensatione della Hel-emosina ad Uso della Compagnia

di S. Giovanni Evangelista quondam di S. Jeronimo di Pisa

S^C. XV. (1491) ON VELLUM

This fine manuscript appears to have belonged to the Compagnia itself, as it has
the autograph censure and attestation of "Roberto Strozi Canonico di
Pisa et Vicario del Rmo Cardinale M. Raphaell de Riario Arcevescovo di
Pisa." It has also additions in the autograph of Thomeo Grassulino Vicario
del R. Arcevescovo, dated 1493. The first page is within an elegantly
illuminated border, with a miniature painting of St. John in the initial
letter. This work, written in a very pure old Italian, gives an interesting
account of the manner in which a private laical association used to distribute
alms in Italy during the fifteenth century, and contains the Rituale of
its Church Service. At the bottom of the first page there are these words :
Opus Reinicri, from which it would appear that the illuminator of this
manuscript was an unknown artist, called Reinerius, no doubt of the town
of Pisa, where this Christian name is even now of very common occurrence.

216 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

960 Statuti et Ordinamenti et Constitutioni del Castello della Eoccha

Albegna (nel territorio di Siena) folio. S^ic. xvi. on yellum

This is the original unpublished book of the " Statuti di Eoccha Albegna," written
in 1565, with some more modern additions, and consisting of 76 leaves.
These municipal laws are almost unknown, and exceedingly curious. For
instance: Every one is to sow every year two staja of corn; nobody
is to remain idle in the streets of Eoccha Albegna during the day,
under a heavy fine, adding "Questo acciocche ciascheduno si dia al esercitio."
Many injunctions relating to the health and cleanliness of the Eoccha would
be very useful at the present day, even in England. One curious fact is,
that in many instances the punishments are more heavy against foreigners
(that is against parties not of the territorio di Siena) than against the
Senesi themselves. The heavy punishment to be inflicted on any man
leaping over the walls, reminds us of the death of Eemus, killed by
Eomulus for a similar offence.

961 Statuti della Terra di Santo Vito, 1711

with official signature of the Notary Public in 1815, attesting the fidelity
of the Transcript, vellum 4<to. Sjec. xix. on paper

These Statuti were quite unknown to Coleti, and are most probably unpublished.
They were granted in 1599, to the people of Santo Vito, by the Marquis
Theodoli, and altered or confirmed afterwards. They afford one of the
latest instances of municipal rights granted by a feudal petty sovereign.
Some penalties are very curious: perjury is fined only twenty carlini (about
seven shillings). We sincerely regret that we have been unable to find in
London a copy of the work of M. Bonaini, on the bibliography of
Italian Statuti, from which we certainly should have derived much in-
formation concerning the Statuti enumerated in the present Catalogue.
The other works of the learned director of the Florentine archives,
which we have been able to peruse, afford such proofs of the author's
erudition and talent that, no doubt, his work on the Statuti would
have furnished us with all the information that could be desired. (See also
No. 685 in the present Catalogue.)

962 Stephani Philosopiii (qui Atheniensis Patria Alexandrinus Domicilio

dictus est) Scholia in Prognostica ITippocratis Gra?ce

folio. Sjec. xv. on paper (95 leaves)
Written in a beautifully clear hand, with numerous marginal notes and additions
(in Greek), by some learned Physician of a later date. Several of the
leaves have been misplaced in the re-bincling. This manuscript, with a
great number of marginal notes and various readings from different manu-
scripts, was no doubt intended for publication, by some learned Italian
Physician of the xvi. century, as is shown also by a quire of separate
remarks (in Italian, Latin, and Greek,) inserted in it. Neither in Hsenel,
nor in the great " Catalogus Bibliothecse Reg. Paris." is any manuscript. of
this work quoted, although other works of the same author are known, such
as the Chrysopcea, etc.

963 Stephonii (Bernardini, Soc. Jesu) de Stylo Laconico, Attico, Ehodio

Syntagma ad Barptolomseum Eostum Mutinse scriptum, Anno 1620,
Yitse Auctoris postremo. Accedunt ejusdem Epistolre ad Jacobum
Pontanum, Epitaphium Caroli Vicecomitis, Parodia Catulli, &c.
half calf gilt folio. S^;c. xvii. on paper

The last works in verse, seem to be in the handwriting of the author, of whom
some later Tragedies were published in Paris and Antwerp in 1G22 and
1634, as is noted in an autograph note by Dr. Eouth, the President of
Magdalen College.

964 Stephonii (Bernardini, S. J.) Liber de Ehetorica et Tractatus de

Cometis 4fo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

The last Treatise, with diagrams,- was unknown to Lalande, and in all probability
is unpublished. The handwriting is about the middle of the last century.

THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS. 217

965 Stephonii (Bernardini, S. J.) Commentarii in Ciceronis Philippicas et

in Librum de Oratore ; de Comedia Disputatio ; Poemata, &c. —
Carrettonii (R. P. Joannis Francisci) Oratio de Excellentia, Anno

MDLXXXIV. 4t0. SjEC. xvi. ON PAPER

These Commentaries have never been printed.

966 Stephonii (Bernardini) Epicedimn in Caroli Yicecomitis Eunus et

Tumulus Hippolyti Sculptoris 4to. S^ec. xvii. on paper

In the autograph of the Poet and signed by him. A curious fact is, that whilst
this learned Jesuit is not named in the four volumes of the Bibliotheque by
MM. de Backer, his name is mentioned by M. Delepierre in his interesting
Macaroniana, (p. 113).

967 Strozzjs (Titi Yespasiani) Borsiados Libri X

4to. Sjec. xviii. (1761) on paper

A transcript from the original manuscript, in the autograph of the learned
Dr. Gr. A. Barotti of Ferrara, who has added a few notes. The author
of this important historical poem died in 1505, leaving his son Hercules
to revise and finish this his grand work, which he looked on not only
as his chef-d'oeuvre, but also as a lasting monument of his gratitude to
his patron, Borso Duke of Este. His son, however, did not survive long
enough to publish it. The signature of Barotti is at the end.

968 Suetonius. I^ofcse Anonymi (C. A. Dukeri ?) ad Suetonium

4>to. SvEC. xviii. on paper

969 Stmeonis Archiepiscopi Thessalonicensis Dialogi contra h^re-

SES, DE SOLA EIDE, DE TEMPLO ET MlSSA, etc. Greece

in the original Greek binding 4tto. Sjec. xv. charta Bombycina

A fine manuscript, written in the East in red and black, of a very important
work for the history of the Greek Liturgy and of the Oriental Church
in general. This learned Archbishop died in 1429, a few months only before
Thessalonica was taken by Amurath. A large portion of the works of
Symeon were published in 1683, at Jassy in Moldavia. This manuscript
contains a great number of various readings, as will be easily ascertained
by comparing only the title of the Ermeneia as given by Fabricius [Bibl.
Grcec. vol. XI. p. 330) with the title of the same work in this manuscript.

970 Table des Angles pour lever les Plans et les tracer sur le Terrein

red morocco Svo. SiEC. xviii. on paper

Elegantly written, with the plans coloured.

971 Tables pour les Annuites Mo. Svec. xviii. on paper
An original manuscript by Duvillard, well known for his writings on the subject.

972 Tachard (Jean) Enseignemens philosophiques a ses Enfans J. C. M.

1599 — Pratiqua de Opera magna Lapidis Philosophorum extracta
ex Libro 11°. Fratris Philippi de Revirllac Pedismontani, Gallice

4/0. S^EC. Xvi. ON PAPER
A curious work on Alchemy.

973 Tacite. Dissertations sur Tacite et ses Ouvrages (par Brotier)

folio. S^ec. xviii. on paper

An autograph manuscript, with the author's corrections. Brotier, as is well
known, was the best editor of Tacitus in the eighteenth century.

974 Taddeo da Bologna (Mo.) Libro della Medecina

Mo. SvEC. XV. ON PAPER

No medical man was more celebrated during the thirteenth century than this
Taddeo, who, on account of his having been appointed professor at Bologna,
was called da Bologna, although born in Florence, as is clear from Ph.

218 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

Villani the writer of his biography. Villani states that, up to the
thirtieth year of his life, Taddeo was a sort of idiot, getting a miserable
existence by selling tapers at a small Florentine church, although afterwards
his renown became so great, that he would not consent to attend Pope
Honorius IV in his illness, unless paid 100 ducati (T oro per day, an enor-
mous sum for that time, to which however the Pontiff, when restored
to health, added ten thousand ducats. The whole of this sum was
afterwards spent by Taddeo iri pious and charitable foundations. This
Italian Libro of Taddeo is quite unknown, as only a single small Italian
work by him is mentioned by his numerous biographers, namely a trans-
lation, from the French, of an abridgment of the Ethics of Aristotle,
inserted by Brunetto Latini in his Tresor, and which Dante criticised in
his Convivio. We give here the beginning of this important work of
Taddeo, which shows that he wrote it in Italian (volgare,) although his
antiquated language of the thirteenth century may have been slightly
altered by the transcribers :

" Questo libro della medecina facto per maestro Taddeo da Bologna."
" Perche dell' arte della medecina sono molti libri schuri ad entendere spetiale
mente a coloro clie non sanno lettera, io venendo da Sancta Maria in Bagnio volendo
ammsestrare li miei compagni e garzoni trassi e ridussi certe cure e medecine
experiment! de libri de Ypocrate e Galieno, Armansor et Avicenna et altri libri
dicendo e volgarizzando, &c."

Besides this work, which is one of the earliest monuments of the Italian
language, the volume, consisting of more than one hundred leaves, contains
also other medical treatises on the cure of fevers; &c, some in a more
modern hand. It is very difficult, however, to ascertain whether these
early Italian medical works have any connection with the manuscript
anonymous works quoted by the Crusca academy under the names of
" Libro della natura delle febbri," — " Libro della cura di tutte le malattie,"
&c. At the end there are written, by several hands, some curious
segreti. One of these is a sort of half magical, half pious invocation for
the use of any one at the moment of being racked who is to implore the
Almighty "ut non efferas ex ore meo verbum veritatis," — a very
significant request!

Concerning Taddeo da Bologna (or better, Taddeo Alderotto Fiorentino)
see also the excellent Compendio Storico della Scuola di Bologna, by
Professor Medici, published in 1857 at the expense of the town of Bologna.
We deeply regret that being obliged, in the present Catalogue, to describe
so many works written by ancient Italian physicians, we were not able to
find in London, either the other works of M. Medici on the subject, or the
recent works of MM. Piccinotti, Freschi, and De Renzi, on the Storia della
Medicina. This is not the only deficiency of the kind we have to regret.

975 Taj-al-Din Is-hak bust Ibrahim, " Muthir-al-Grharam wa Khulasat-al-

Kalam," A History of Abraham and other Patriarchs, in Arabic,
Naskh character, copied Anno Hegirse 1065 (a.d. 1654) by Mohib-
al-Din, red sheep 4<to. Sjec. xvii. on glazed paper

Unpublished and interesting.

976 TakT-al-Din Ibn Htjjjat-al-Hamawi (Shaikh), " Badi'iyat," or the

Art of elegant Composition, by Ibn Hujjat and Wajih-al-Dm. 'Abd-
al-Eahman — Shahab-al-DIn Ahmad (Shaikh) son of 'Ibad, better
known by the title of " Haim," the " Irshad-al-Talib 'Ala-Wasilat-
al-Hissftb," a Treatise on Arithmetic, written Anno Hegirse 993
(a.d. 1584) — Shahab-al-Din, A Treatise on Equity — Shams-al-
Dijst Hanaidi, A Dissertation on Months and Years — Muhammad
Bin-'Abd-al-B-ahman, A Treatise on Mathematics, the Hours of
Prayer, Months, Tears, &c. — A Treatise, in Verse, on Months,
Tears and Dates in general — Treatise on Astronomy — Treatises
on the Formation of the Circle, &c. — Treatise on the Sun's

THE LIBEI MANTJSCKIPTS. 219

Degrees — 'Ali Ibn Muhammad bin 'Izz-al-Din, Miscellaneous
Traditions and Prayers 4rto. S^ec. xvii. on paper

A collection of unpublished works, all in Arabic, and very interesting. Respect-
ing the Badfiyat see Hajl Khalfa (vol. II, p. 361). This volume was copied
anno Hegirse 1060 (a.d. 1649).

977 Tancreti Magistri Casus ordinarii, calf 8vo. S^;c. xv. on yellum

We find at the beginning that these Casus are an epitome of the " Liber de ordine
judiciario,1' etc., a work of Tancredus a Corneto, a well-known Italian
jurist of the thirteenth century. The volume contains also other tracts,
namely : " De actore et reo," and Exacta. This last is full of informa-
tion relating to Roman antiquities. The first fly-leaf is a fragment of a fine
manuscript of the ninth century.

979 Tarikh-Muluk-al-Misr, Anonymous History of the Kings of Egypt

and of the Khalifs, in Arabic Verse
hoards 4fo. SiEC. xvii. on thick glazed paper

980 Tartalia de Mantellis de Canobio, Rime, morocco, gilt edges, from

the Collection of Count Gastaldi 4-to. Smc. xv. on paper

An unpublished well-written manuscript, which has an illuminated initial and
the arms of an ancient possessor (a lion with three Florentine lilies). It
formerly belonged to Apostolo Zeno, and has his book-plate and some
annotations in his handwriting, with a letter addressed to him on the subject
of this elegant manuscript. Apostolo Zeno is celebrated not only as a most
eminent letterato, but also as a great collector of rare books and manuscripts.
This Canzoniere of an author quite unknown to all the biographers and
bibliographers we have perused, but who is stated in the letter prefixed to
have been of a noble family of Bologna, deserved and was, no doubt, an
object of the special attention of that learned man. It is difficult to state
at what time these Versi were written; however from the fact that the author
mentions Dante, Petrarca, Cino da Pistoja, Sennuccio and Boccaccio, but (as
far as we have been able to discover) no more modern poet, as well as from
the poetry and language in itself, we are induced to believe, that this
writer must have lived about the end of the fourteenth century. This
transcript, most probably by a Bolognese scribe, does no credit to the
poet, whose Ballate are most worthy of publication.

981 Tasso (Torquato) Discorso della Virtu Femminile

folio. S^C. XVI. ON PAPER

This is the original Draft of the Work, and is in the Autograph
of the Poet, which is of excessive rarity. It consists of twelve
folio pages. The handwriting perfectly agrees with the two well-
known manuscripts in the British Museum, and with the various fac-
similes of his autograph letters that have been published. The variations
of this manuscript from the printed edition are very great, as will be
shown by confronting a portion only of the first page of the manuscript
with the edition (Tasso Opere, 12 vols, in 4to. Venezia, 1738, vol. VIII.
p. 222).

Manuscript. Edition.

" De' quali il principe e tale che ben " De' quali il principe e tale che ben di

di lui si puo cantare quel verso di Vir- mi si puo cantare quel verso Oraziano :

gilio : Gratior et pulchro veniens in cor- Quo calet juventus, Nunc omnis, et Mox

pore virtus, o quell' altro Qualis gemma virgines tepebunt. O piuttosto quel di

micat fulvum quern dividit durum, e tutto Virgilio: Gratior et pulchro veniens in

cio clie la bellezza d'Eurialo, o d'Ha- corpore virtus; E la Duchessa di Fer-

scanio, o di Turno descrivendosi e per rara e si fatta."
bellezza d'artificii ammirato, e la Duch-
essa di Ferrara e si fatta."

Although slightly imperfect (the last leaf being supplied by another hand),
it is one of the most interesting relics of Italy's great bard. It was
formerly in the possession of the Abbate Don Vicenzo Faustini, an eminent
collector, residing at Ferrara, from whose hands it passed successively into

220 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

those of Signor Pagini, Captain Kiichler, L. G. Gruner, the eminent artist,
and M. Libri. From an inclosed letter it appears that M. Gruner was
empowered to sell it for not less than fifty pounds. {See facsimile.)

982 Tasso (T.) Ragiofamento de due Gentilhuomini l'uno Romano
l'alteo Venetiano sopra il Governo della Repubblica Venetiaua
fatto alii 15 di Gennaro, 1580, al modo di Venetia

folio. Sjsc. xvi. ON PAPER

This work or dialogue is very interesting, but what renders this manuscript
truly invaluable is that, according to the best connoisseurs, this volume,
consisting of sixty-one leaves, is undoubtedly in the handwriting of the cele-
brated Tokquato Tasso, who probably was also the unknown author of the
work, as there are several corrections which could only have been made by
the author himself, as for instance, at fol. 30, where instead of questi hanno
causa, it is altered to questi hanno autorita, and at fol. 32, where instead of
"Delibera cosi della pace come della guerra," the correction is "Delibera
della pace et della guerra."

It is well known that the handwriting of Tasso, like that of Galileo and
other celebrated men, experienced considerable change with the progress of
time. The handwriting of this manuscript is more free, and has a more
youthful appearance than that of the previous one, but the general charac-
ter is the same, and to those who have seen the autograph manuscripts of
Tasso, kept in the various libraries of Italy, there cannot remain any
doubt concerning the genuineness of the autograph manuscripts of Tasso
described in this Catalogue. It is well known that, in consequence of his
misfortune, the manuscripts of Tasso were dispersed everywhere, and that
a considerable portion of the works of that illustrious man have appeared
for the first time in the present century, in different places, and at different
periods. One of the last and most interesting discoveries of the kind was
made at Montpellier, about twenty years ago, by a celebrated Italian
bibliographer, the Abate Gazzera, and published by him at Turin in 1838,
under the title of Trattato della Dignita, etc. di Torquato Tasso.

See also Nos. 689, 869, and 870 in the present Catalogue. {See facsimile.)

983 Temple (Sir W.) Annotationes ad R. Temple de Statu foederataruin

Provmciarum Belgii, half calf 4<to. SvEC. xvii. on paper

984 Temporum Discriptio a creatione mundi (usque ad Alexium Comne-

num a.c. 1081) — Chronicon Pontificum (a S. Petro ad Eugenium
III. a.c. 1145) — Series Abbatum Cassinensium (a S. Beuedicto
usque ad obitum Simardi Abbatis, a.c. 1287) — Anontmi Cassi-
nensis Chronicon (ab anno Chr. 1000, ad annum 1195)
vellum small folio. Sj-;c. xiv. on yelltjm

A fine and valuable manuscript, written in red and black ink by an Italian hand.
This collection of original historical works, in several places relating the
wars of Charlemagne against the Langobards, the Norman conquests in Italy,
and even the British wars in the East during the Crusades, is of the greatest
interest. The Anonymus Cassinensis only has been published by Caraccioli
in his " Chronologi Quatuor," at Naples in 1626, and appeared again with
several illustrations and additions by Pratilli in the fourth volume of the
last edition of the Peregrini Historia Principnm Langobardorum {Nea-
poli, 1752, 5 vol. 4to). The other works contained in this volume are
unpublished, and they exhibit a great variety of historical information.
As a specimen of the "Chronicon Pontificum," Ave subjoin the biography of
Joannes XV. (986-996) taken from this manuscript :

" Ioannes an. ix. me xi. dieb. v. (regnavit)

" Hie a petro prefecto rc-mane urbis comprehensus et in castello Sci. Angeli
retrusus, deinde campaniam in exilium missus post decern menses et dies xxix
Romam reversus est et de persecutoribus eius ab Ottone Imperatore supplicium
sumptum."

The text of the Anonymous Cassinensis is in this manuscript more correct
than in any one seen by Caraccioli, Peregrini, or Pratilli, and not only
contains valuable various readings, but is placed in a totally different order
from the text already published. In fact, this manuscript contains year by

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year (from the year 1000 to 1195 inclusive) a perpetual chronological series
of events, arranged in a peculiar manner, while the printed text is saltatory,
and omits a great number of years. To mention only one of the various
readings, we shall point out that the whole of the manuscripts kept in the
library of the Monte Casino affirm that the Emperor Conrad died in the
year 1038, a mistake which Pratilli was obliged to correct by the substitu-
tion of the true date, 1039, as an emendation of his own. In this manu-
script, in which the numerical figures are written according to the ancient
Roman arithmetical system, the date of 1039 is correctly given.

To fully appreciate the various readings contained in this, as well as in the
manuscripts described under the Nos. 143 and 353 of the present Cata-
logue, and which relate to the domination of the Langobardi in Italy,
would require the science and critical acumen of M. Capei, who in the
Archivio Storico Italiano, has recently discussed with great success some
slight various readings discovered in manuscripts of Paulus Diaconus.

985 Teologia. Seutimenti cavati da vari divoti Autori (specialmente dal

Beato de Liguori) 12mo. SiEC. xviii. on paper

986 Teeentii Comgedi^e

in the original binding 4bto. S^;c. xv. (1454) on paper

This valuable transcript of an early and excellent manuscript is in the
autograph of John Pircheimer, of Nuremberg, the father of the famous
Bilibald, a scholar of the highest repute (surnamed the Xenophon of
Nuremberg) and the friend of Albert Durer. At the end of the plays
and on the last leaf are the following inscriptions in red ink : " Explicit
Terentius per Johannem Pircheimer, Anno Dom1 mccccliiii Pasce," and
uExpliciunt Excerpta Terentii Johannis Pircheimer J unions." Without
expatiating too much in the description of this interesting manuscript, we
need only mention that it begins with the " Natus in excelsis tectis Cartha-
ginis Altae," a poem which has been published amongst the Elogia veterum
de Terentio, from an ancient manuscript Bibliothecas Regiai Parisiensis,
Then comes a Life of Terentius, entirely different from the Terentii vita
by Donatus, and having only a general likeness in the meaning, but quite
different in the wording to the Terentii vita., which Abr. Gronovius pub •
lished from an Oxford manuscript. The argumentum of the Andria which
follows is also quite different from the arguments already published and
ascribed to Donatus and Engraphius. The title of the Andria in this
manuscript is different from that in the editions, being " Andria et Perintia
Menandri Grseca," instead of Adria, as in print ; and the Periocha for
explanation) C. Sulpitii Apollinaris, in Andria Terentii, which has been
published, is here in the manuscript, but without the name of the author.
The Eunuchus (called in this manuscript Colax Menandri Graeca, Enuchus
Terentii Latina) offers similar variations, as the Argumentum agrees at
the beginning with the Donatus, but is quite different at the end. The
same may be said of the other plays. As a general remark, we must add
that (as is the case in many ancient manuscripts) the plays are written like
a prose work, without any distinction of verses, except in the Andria, where
they often vary from the editions. At the end there are some additions,
amongst which are a Vita Terentii and Excerpta Terentii, ' by Pircheimer
himself.

987 Testa (Domenico) Baccolta da varie Notizie

3 vol. 4<to. Sjec. xviii. on paper

In the autograph of this learned man, who was Segretario de' Brevi at Rome.
These three volumes contain much curious and varied information.

988 Testamentum Novum, Latine, cum Prologis

original stamped binding ivith clasjjs folio. S^ec. xii. on vellum

Beautifully written on very pure vellum, in a folio, of the very unusual shape
known as "Agenda." The text occupies the centre of each page, leaving
ample margins on each side, which, as regards the Evangelists, are filled

222 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

with Glosses in a beautiful small hand. Two fly-leaves in front are filled
with u Concordantise Evangeliorum," and on the two fly-leaves at end are
"Glossse de Matheo et de Marco obmissse. (See facsimile.)

989 Testament. Arrest du Conseil Souverain de Malines portant Deffences

de recevoir la Bulle du Pape contre la Traduction du JNouveau Tes-
tament imprimee a Mons en l'Annee 1667, du 10 Juillet, 1668, avec
l'Examen du Bref Svo. S^ec. xvii. on paper

An interesting manuscript from the Van de Velde Collection.

990 Testi (Fulvio) L'Arsinda, Tragedia — L'Avaro, Comedia (di Moliere,

tradotta) — Crispi (Canonici Comitis Erancisci Octavii) Carmina
Latina — Bazzi (Silvano) Gismonda, Tragedia — Gigli (Girolamo)
L'Avarizia piu honorata nella Serva che nella Padrona owero La
Sorellina di D. Pilone Comedia rarissima — Nogarola (M. Antonio
ed altri) Belazione e Lettere intorno V Esecuzione del Conte Giov.
BattistaNogarola di Yeronacondannato a Morte per Assassinio (1764)
— Conclave doppo la Morte del Pontefice Benedetto XIV. in cui
fu assunto al Pontificato Clemente XIII. — Caso del Capitan Alleotti
e della Contessa Maldenti di Eorli — Belazione di Bianca Capello —
Poggii Elorentini Facetiae JrcuNDissiM^: — Guicciardini (F.)
Squarcio rimarchevole de Sacco di Boma — Begali Stati fatti dal S.
Principe di Leichtestein al S. Marchese Botti Begente in Toscano
l'Anno 1764 — Vita di S. Brandano detto il Pazzarello di Christo —
Vita di Girolamo Curti detto il Dentone Pittore

in one vol. 4<to. 8mc. xviii. on paper

A curious collection which, in some portions, seems to be in the autograph of
the authors themselves. The Poggii Facetiae are of rare occurrence in
manuscripts. Amongst the Regali (presents) from Prince Leichtestein to
Marquis Botti, we find the Padella in which Habakkuk carried the soup
to Daniel in the Lions' Den, the boots of Lot, &c, &c. ! !

991 Tetxeyra (Joao, " Cosmographo de S. Magestade ") DescripQam dos

Portos Maritimos do Beyno de Portugal

oblong 4to. 1648, on paper

This autograph Portulano of Portugal, containing sixteen Charts (finely executed
and coloured) with descriptions of the principal Ports opposite, does not
appear to have been published. This interesting manuscript was in the
possession of the celebrated French Admiral and Navigator, Bougain-
ville, as appears from his autograph note at the beginning — "Present
que M. le Cte- de Caylus m' a fait en janv. 1738, B." We could not find
any mention of this Portuguese Cosmographer in the Essai by the Vicomte
de Santarem.

992 Thakur Lal (Munshi) " Dastur-al-'Amal-ShahanshahT :" The Imperial

Begulations and Political Divisions of Hindustan and the Dekhan,
in Arabic, written by Munshi Thakur Lal in the year 1778

small Ho, S^ec. xviii. on paper

Containing an unpublished account of the Siibahs, Sirkars, and Pargunnahs
belonging to Dehli, from the time of Akbar to the year 1771, embracing
the occasional changes and historical notices of former Rulers. It is a
valuable document for the geography and history of India, etc.

993 Theologica Varia

in the original binding, with clasps small 4<to. Sjec xi.-xiv. on vellum

A Collection of various manuscripts written at different periods, the first being
a Treatise containing epistles and several abstracts of S. Augustinus, written
in the eleventh century, but unfortunately wanting the beginning. The

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second is entitled "Tractatus Beatse Virginis cum aliis bonis Exemplis,1'
and is a curious collection of pious stories, amongst which " de Sacerdote
qui mulierem in nocte nativitatis invenit et peccavit cum ea," " de Dyabolo
et de Pictore," and "de Sartore," will amuse the reader. The colophon to
this is, "Anno Domini millessimo trecentessimo decimo nono.1' On the
leaf preceding, is the following old German distich :

" Su min Me spote umb nun unhail
Dem gebe got oiler unsdlde amtail. Amen, amen fiat ita"

Next follow Notices of Martyrs, &c. ; then a very curious early German
Poem, written like prose, on the death of Christ, followed by Treatises or
Sermons de Trinitate, &c. in Latin, on the last leaf of which is a spirited
drawing in red ink, over which is written Abacuc. The volume concludes
with " Sermones de Missa, de Angelis," and other similar subjects in different
handwritings of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. (See facsimile.)

994 Theologica. Sermones De Jejunio ; de Anima ; de Ira, Luxuria,

Eornicatione, &c. ; de Incantiis ; Historia B. Helysabeth de Hun-
garia, &c. &c. 4fo. Sjec. xv. on paper

This volume contains also an Italian Poem of 48 lines, commencing :

" Or may che son in etade
Volio servire al mio Jesu
Al mondo non volio stare piii
Per che e pien de iniquitade."

995 Theologica Ascetica et Mtstica. A very valuable Collection of

early Theological Treatises, written on 189 leaves for the Carthusian
Nuns at Erfurt, in the original binding 4to. S^ec. xv. on paper

A list of the contents of the volume in a handwriting of the fifteenth century
is prefixed. Amongst the Treatises the following occur : Tractatus de
Arte moriendi ; Joannis Gersoni Exercitium ; Precationes ad D. Mariam ;
Opuscula varia Ven. Johannis Paltz ; &c. &c. At folio 170, " Planctus
cujusdam hominis agonizantis," is written in very pure Saxon. This
manuscript is also remarkable on account of the numerous numerical figures
it contains.

996 Theologica Excerpta, Greece

russia folio (format agenda). SiEC. xvii. on paper

This valuable manuscript, from the Collection of the Hon. Fr. North, (Earl of
Guilford), contains an immense number of abstracts from the Greek Fathers.
It was written in Italy in different hands by thorough Greek scholars. Some
of these abstracts seem to be in the handwriting of the celebrated Allatius
(Leone Allacci).

997 Theologica Varia: scilicet — Hugo deProfessione Monachorum — Ber-

nard i Expositio Eegulse S. Benedicti — Mathei de Cracovia Con-
flictus de Altercationibus Eationis et Conscientise super Celebratione
Missse sine Mora Scriptus ac finitus mccccl — Matheus de Puritate
et Castitate Cordis — Henricus de Hassia de Officio Misses et de Pro-
prietatibus Eeligiosorum — De Paupertate et de Gradibus Virtutum
— Gerson (Johannes) de Non Esu Carnium apud Carthusienses — ■
Tractatus de Pcenitentia et ejusdem Partibus — Anthonii de
Butrio Directorium ad confitenda Peccata (with the date mccccxxi.)
— Tractatus de Decalogo— Quest io pulchra cum suis deduc-
tionibus, pro et contra de voto Carthusiensium omnimodae
abstinentise ab Esu Carnium, &c. — Aenaldi de Villanova Trac-
tatus de Esu Carnium — Procopii Run Epistola? ad Bohemos, &c.
mccccxxx. — Utrum Eeligio Christi sit Eeligionum perfectissima ?

224 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

— Qeeson (Johannis) Opusculum de Examinatione Doctrinarum —
Augustini (Aurelii) de Cognitione verge Vitse
in the original oak binding 4fo. S.ec. xv. on paper

This valuable Collection of early Theological Writings, by authors generally too
well-known to require any remarks from us, was written for the use of the
Carthusian Monastery at Erfurt, as appears from a note at the beginning.

998 Theological Treatises in Turkish Verse

red morocco 4to. SiEC. xix. on paper

Beautifully executed in Nasfalik.

999 Theologie. Extraicts des Livres de la Sainte Bible et des Peres de

l'Eglise folio. Sjec. xiv. on vellum

This manuscript, apparently a portion of an old Homily, and consisting of
34 pages, wants the commencement, but is very important both for the
ancient French language, and as proving, in conformity with the learned
publication made by M. Leroux de Lincy of the Quatre Litres des Rois,
and with other important works, that there existed in that language an
early version of the Bible, which is now lost. As a specimen, we quote uEn
Ecclesiastique el deusime Capitle li ceil du sage en son chief." It ends thus :

Et je ichi fe mi fin & ge chi me repos
Ore prions a chachun qui en lui fu repos
Et qui de jouste lui ha doner repos
Et nous otroit par sa grase perdurable repos.

1000 Thesaurus Pauperum in quo omnium fere Innrmitatum inveniuntur

faciles et efficaces Medicinae — Quest Libre es bons per ayer

SANITAT D'L CORS AD HOME O A FEMENA

4<tO. SiEC. XIV. ON YELLUM

Written by a Spanish Scribe, the first page having a curious illuminated border.
The second work, consisting of 36 leaves, written in double columns, is
entirely in the Limousin dialect, in which but few manuscripts ever occur
for sale, owing to their excessive rarity. It differs entirely from the first
work, which was so celebrated during the middle ages. The Limousin work
is full of curious secrets. This is one :

" Per enfantar. Si femena non pot enfantar escribes en una poma Montem.
Sanctam esportanean in honorem Deo patre, et liberationem et donas la li a maiar."

It was not only en una poma that these magical prescriptions were
written during the middle ages. We know from a commentary upon Dante
by Benvenuto da Imola, published by Muratori {Antiqnitates, vol. I. col.
1296), that the most precious manuscripts were mutilated in order to get a
piece of vellum for a similar purpose.

1001 Thiepolo (M. Antonio) "Ritornato di Constantinopoli l'Anuo 1576,

Bailo a Baiazet et poi Ambasciatore Residente a Gregorio XIII.
Papa," sopra le Forze del Turco — Discorso intorno alia Passata
dell' Imperadore in Italia con l'Armi Tedesche alii Danni del Gran
Duca di Toscana — Malatesti (Grioseppe) Discorso di qual Impresa
dourebbe tentare il Re Catholico doppo l'Acquisto di Portogallo —
Castro (Don Scipio di) sopra l'Andata del Duca d'Alanson in
Fiandra e sopra l'Andata del Principe Mattia d'Austria in Fiandra
l'Anno 1577 in I vol. folio. S^ec. xvi. on paper

The Discorso by Malatesti is very interesting for English history. Written
after the conquest of Portugal by Phillip II. King of Spain, in 1580, to
incite an invasion of England, it most probably suggested the first idea of
the "Invincible Armada."

1002 Thobije Veronensis Poetse celeberrimi Liber Isotteus

calf, with a Cardinal's arms on sides 4ito. Sjec. xviii. on paper

A transcript of an ancient and complete manuscript, the Colophon of which :
" Consummatum Opus Verone per Christophorum Schioppum VIII0 KL

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 225

Octobris, 1451," has been here reproduced by the scribe. This poem was
published without the name of the author, but in a most defective state.
There are very few complete manuscripts, and probably only the two
which were mentioned by MafFei and Fabricius. The work is very impor-
tant for the history of the literary court of the " Malatesta da Rimino."

1003 Thom^e Aqttinatis (S.) in primum et secundum Librum Periherme-

niarum Aristotelis — Gratia {sic) de Esculo Supplement urn in
Librum secundum Perihermeniarum Aristotelis et Scriptum super
Libros sex Principiorum — Dominici de Elandria brevis Recollectio
super Libros de Anima, Expositio super Eallaciis S. Thomse de
Aquino et Tractatus brevis de Suppositionibus

4to. Sjec. XV. ON PAPER
According to Quetif and Echard the Tractatus brevis exists only in manuscript.

1004 Tibulli (Albi) Carmina — Ovidii Nasonis (P.) Amores et Epistola

Saphos ad Faonem. — Epigra mmata Graeca — Priapeia Virgilii
Publii Maronis Mantuani Poetj3, " Oddo Magolinus absolvit
Anno Salvatoris mccccxxi." — Versi Italiani di Serafino ed altri

4fo. SiEC. XV. (1421) ON PAPER

This early manuscript is not only valuable for the works of the poets it
contains, but also for the glosses (several in Italian) on the " Priapeia." In
1473 it appears to have belonged to the celebrated Paolo Ramusio (see
Tiraboschi), and has his autograph signature with a Quatrain addressed to
Galesino. Nothing is more unusual than to find in manuscripts the Priapeia
Virgilii, and two only of them are mentioned in the great " Catalogus Biblio-
thecse Regias Parisiensis." Here at the beginning the Priapeia are attri-
buted to Ovid, but at the end to Virgil. A curious fact, is, that in this
manuscript the whole of the Priapeia are written like a single poem,
and not, as in the editions, divided into several portions with various
headings. The Latin glosses have been taken from an older manu-
script, and they show that they are the work of some ancient gram-
marian. At the beginning of the Tibullus there occurs a biography and
epitaph of the poet, and in the middle of the " Ovidii Amores," are Greek
epitaphs of Alexander and Sappho. The Italian poems are on amatory
and moral subjects, one with the name of Serafino, who was not Serafino
Aquilano, born in 1466, but some other unknown Serafino who lived
previously. A vellum fly leaf is a palimpsest apparently from a very old
manuscript. In every respect this collection is worthy of the attention of
the learned.

1005 Timur, the " Tuzukat-i-Timur," or Institutes of Tamerlane, in Persian,

calf Mo. S^ec. xviii. on paper

This is a translation into Persian, from the autobiographical memoirs of Timur
in the Chaghtal Turkish language, made by Abu Talib-al-Hussain, in the
reign of the Mongol Emperor Shah Jehan, with an historical introduction
not printed in the edition of Professor White and Major Davy. Well
written, in Nasta'tlk, on Indian paper.

1006 Tornaco (R. P. Andreae a, "e Societate Jesu") Philosophia Trans-

naturalis (Metaphysica) ; de Meteoris ; de artificialium Eontium
Principiis et Spiritalibus Machinis ; Geometria ; de Spha3ra ; de
Linea Directionis et Centro Gravitatis ; de Horologiis ; Arithmetica,
&c. — Galopin (R. P. Jacobi, " S. J.") Philosophia moralis
calf, with clasps Mo. Duaci, 1649, on paper

The Lectures of two learned Jesuit Professors at Do way College, taken down
by their pupil, J. B. Chocqueel, and illustrated with drawings of diagrams
and very spirited etchings of mechanical inventions, &c. These works are
not mentioned either in the scientific biographies that we have perused,
or in the Bibliotheque of MM. de Backer, who speak (vol. IV. p. 699) of
A. de Tornaco without alluding to his Philosophia.

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226 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

1007 Toernemine (Pere, " de la Compagnie de Jesus ") Essay de la Science

universelle, " Jacobus Allais scripsit 1094 "
calf 4to. Sjec. xvii. (1694) on paper

This work of a well known opponent of Voltaire, is not quoted in the Biographic
Universelle, amongst the works of the author, and seems unpublished.

1008 Towers (Joseph, "the celebrated Political Writer") Autograph

Cominon-Place-Book, containing Prayers for the Opening of the
Service, Memoranda relative to Deaths of Relations and Friends,
List of his Publications, List and Laws of Quarterly Club, Purchases
of Books, with Prices, &c. Mo. S,ec. xviii. on paper

1009 Tractates de Officio Missse — Historia de Translatione Sanctissimi

Pueri et Martiris Viti — Tractates Boneventurse de arbore caritatis
— Brevis et pulcher Tractatulus de Vita contemplativa — De
Natera Animaliuni — Vocabularia Latino - Germanica — Ex-
cerpta varia, &c. 4do. StEC. xv. on paper

The " Historia translations S. Viti," is a work of great importance for the
history of France, and especially for that of the celebrated convent of Corbeil
during the reign of Pepin and his successors. In the work, Tie Natura
cmimalium, we find very curious descriptions : De Unicorno, de Onagro, de
Castore, etc. But the most important part of this volume are the various
" Vocabularia Latino-Germanica " contained therein. They are disposed
in various classes : De ponderibus, Nomina quadrupedum, Nomina volucrum,
Nomina piscium, etc., etc. The vocabulary of fishes begins thus : Lucius,
Heclit ; Borbeta, trisch ; etc. Towards the end there are some additions in
old German, amongst which the Apostles' Creed is very curious, as it
assigns to each of the twelve the portion made by him. It commences with
Saint Peter, and to Judas Iscariot assigns the words " Ablausz der
Sunden " (Forgiveness of Sins).

1010 Tractates de Vitiis et Virtutibus (Eeitlinga, 1415) — Exposiciones

Vocabulorum. et Nominum eorum qui gerunt officia et dignitates
Romano Imperio — Tabula Vocabulorum in Jure Lege et Legibus — ■
Index Nominum Biblicorum — Formulariem Juris, Anno 1471 —
Verses super Libros Decretalium, cum Tabula subscripta, in the
original oak boards, with the iron chain for securing it in its place in the
Library 4<to. Sjec. xv. (1415-71) on yellem and paper

The greatest portion of this manuscript appears to have been written at Reut-
lingen, by John Gintram, in 1415. The colophon is: " Scripta est in
Reitlinga per Fratrem Joannem G hit ram Lectorem ibidem sub Anno
Domini MCCCCXV, &c." The Tractatus de Vitiis et Virtutibus is secundum
ordinem alphabeti, and is collected from Boethius, Ovidius, Statius, Macrobius,
&c. &c. The vellum fly leaves contain a portion of a lectionarium of the
ninth or tenth century, finely written. Very few volumes in existence retain
the old chain and original binding of so early a period. On that account
this is a great curiosity.

1011 Tractates de Judiciis — Poema Italiano "Marzoccho io penso al tuo

tempo futuro" (1494) — Form^e varise — Pies Pontifex Maximus
(iEneas Sylvius) ad Turcum cum Turci Responsione — Formeea-
rtem Notariorum Senensium — Invectiva Ciceronis in Salustium —
Salesties contra Ciceronem — Poggii Epistola ad Cosmum de Me-
dicis — Formeeariem antiquum Sponsalium, Testamentorum, &c.-^-
Form^e Ordinationis et Degradationis — Instrementem Legi-
timationis filiorum spuriorum — Sermo de Introitu Officii — Ora-
tiones varia3 — De Matrimonio (Italice) — In Magistrem Augus-
tinum Senensem Versus 4<to. S.ec. xv. on paper

A curious Collection, consisting of 184 leaves, comprising a great variety of
tracts, written during the fifteenth century by different hands. The Mar-

THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS. 227

zoccho is a political Poem against Florence. On the reverse of leaf 120,
there is a " Compromesso tra Filippo Maria Visconti e Francesco Sforza,"
dated 1441. The exchange of abuse between Pope Pius II and the Grand
Turk is very amusing. The various Formularia are important for Liturgical
and Ecclesiastical History.

1012 Tractatus varii de Inquisitoribus ; de Jure Canokico, de

LlTURGIA, etc. etc. 4it0. SiEC. xv. on vellum

This manuscript commences with " De Statu Prsedicatorum et Inquisitorum
Sermo," followed by others " de Pr^elatis," and the rest of the Ecclesiastical
Orders, with Treatises de Potestate Papa?, de Primatu S. Petri, de Conciliis, de
Excommunicacione, de Deo, de Trinitate, de Angelis, de Martiribus, de
Purgatorio," &c. The whole concludes with " Explicit Tractatus de Indul-
gentiis editus a Dn0 Flore110 ." The first capital with a border is richly
illuminated, and the commencing words " Coeli enarrant," are in letters
of gold. This fine manuscript formerly belonged to the monastery of
S. Giustina of Padua, a celebrated library. The most important portion of
this collection, consisting of several hundred leaves, relates to the Inquisi-
tion, and contains much private information on the subject : for instance,
" De inquisitoribus quomodo se debent habere inquisitionem contra hsere-
ticos," &c. (See also Nos. 517-520 in the present Catalogue.)

1013 Tractatus brevis et Noticia Judicii Lunse generaliter in Signis —

Notabile de Urinis et de Pulsibus — De Egribus et Urinis (Senis,
1473) — De Ponderibus secundum G-ulielmum. — Versus de Ponde-
ribus — Prescript pokes Medicae et alia Svo. SiEC. xv. on paper

An interesting collection, with many memoranda by an Italian scholar, several
being dated Pisis 1474-75, or Senis 1473-76. The volume contains also
" Summse predictionis de pulsibus,1' " De Synonimis," " Secreta varia,"
with Extracts from J. de Forlivio, " Excerpta de libro qui compotus dicitur
Johannis de Sacrobosco Anglico astrologo prestantissimo." This volume
contains several tables, and a great number of numerical figures, the whole
of them written according to the Arabic system. The " Versus de pon-
deribus " begin with u Collige triticis mensurse," &c.

1014 Traite du Mariage de l'An 1413 entre Jehan de France Due de

Touraine et Dame Jacques de Baviere Comtesse de Hollande {Ma-
nuscript of the period) — Copie du Traite de Mariage de Philibert
Due de Savoye et de Marguerite d'Autriche tante de l'Empereur
Charles V, 20 Septembre 1501 {modern Transcript) — Traite de
Mariage, etc. conclu entre Charles V. et Francois I. au sujet des
Manages de Henee de France, avec le dit Empereur Charles V.
14 M^rs, 1514 {Transcript)
half bound in one vol. folio. S^ec. xv. & xviii. on paper

1015 Trattato de lo Compendio de Salute (Expositione de la Fede

Cattolica, de li Sacramenti, de li X Commandementi, de ia Carita, de li
sette Peccati Mortali e dela Confessione) 4<to. S^ec. xiv. on vellum

This important work is, as the anonymous author informs us in his Proemio,
" breve compendio retracto de uno libro dicto Quadriga Spirituale." Pro-
fessor Marsand (who styles it "bella operetta ch'e certamente una della
piu importanti ") justly observes that it was " scritto certamente nei buoni
tempi della nostra favella.11 Marsand, who discovered another copy in
the Library of St. Genevieve at Paris, has given a portion of the Proemio
in his " Manoscritti Italian! della Regia Biblioteca Parigina," etc. (vol. II,
p. 437, and a collation of that with this manuscript shows that the present
exhibits a purer text. The manuscript is finely written on pure Italian
vellum, with an initial in gold and colours at the beginning. Concerning
this work, as well as the Quadriga Spirituale of Fra Nicola da Osimo
(No. 848 in the present Catalogue), see : Palermo, I manoscritti palatini di
Firenze (p. 215).

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228 THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS.

1016 Teattato di tutte le discipline umane (e delle sette arte liberali)

4to. Sjec. xvi. ON PAPER

A most learned work, •written in prose and verse, commencing with the
Creation, and treating of sacred and profane history, of the discovery of
sciences, arts, language (Hebrew, Greek, etc.), writing, &c, &c. On the
margin of the reverse of folio 35, in the same handwriting as the
book, against a quotation in verse, is written "Antonio dal Legname
Padoano pone questo." This Antonio dal Legname wrote the Astolfo in-
amorato. The portions treating of penmanship, arithmetic, music with
musical notes and figures (the pianoforte is named Manacorda), &c, are
most interesting. This early Italian cyclopedia is unpublished, and is of
great importance for the history of sciences and art. It contains numerous
drawings, cosmographical, mechanical, etc., etc. The figure of the early
pianoforte, or Spinetta, is extremely curious, and the treatises on Abbaco
and geometry, with interesting problems, deserve the attention of the
learned. This singular work is without any title, and, judging by the
marginal notes, seems to be in the autograph of the unknown author.
The treatise De le sette arte liberali begins folio 38 of this volume, and
consists of 76 leaves. A peculiar feature of this work is that it is written
in prose and verse (Italian and sometimes Latin), and that the author
often introduces in his work, as portions of it, long quotations from
different poets.

1017 Travels. Description of one Tear's Journey (1661-62) through

France, England, Flanders, Holland, Germany, Hungary, Italy,
Sicily to Malta, returning through Italy and France to Solothurn

Mo. SiEC. xvii. (1661-62) on paper

An Autograph manuscript replete with curious information, relating chiefly to
the fine arts and sciences. The author, who, very probably, was a noble-
man of Soleure in Switzerland, has written his description in German, and
translated them himself into tolerably good Italian. The description of
England and of its inhabitants is curious. The traveller finds the English-
men very stiff and the roads very smooth.

1018 Treyigi. Forty original Deeds on vellum, with the Notarial Signatures

S.EC. XV-XYl AND Xvii. ON VELLLM

Interesting for the general genealogical history of Trevigi. Several of
these deeds belong to the fifteenth century (1449 — 1453.)

1019 Tridentini Concilii quorundam Decretorum a Cardinalibus Same

Oongregationis, ejusdem Concilii Declarationes ad diversos Episcopos
et Prselatos missa?, quibus additaa sunt nonnullse Declarationes
Pii IIII. et Pii V. et Gregorii XIII. et etiam Sixti V.

folio. SiEC. xvii. (1602) on paper

There are at the end several additional Declarations and Letters of Cardinal
Caraffa, &c. Some of the decrees and declarations contained in this
volume are of a confidential character, and therefore very probably
unpublished.

1020 'Urei, " Kasidahs " (Idyls) A collection of Poems by 'Urfi
Oriental binding 2 vol. Mo. Smc. xvi. ON paper

Beautifully written, Anno Hegira? 999 (a.d. 1590), in the Nasta'llk character.
The margins of this manuscript are wormed. 'Urfi is highly esteemed as a
Persian poet, and considered by his countrymen as next to Hafiz.

1021 Usitra. Per raffrenare l'usura rimpetto alle Leggi Civili non vi e

mezzo piu certo che quello di abbandonare l'usura a se stessa. Opus-
colo diretto alia Commissione Legislativa creata in Toscana con
Decreto del di 9 Luglio, 1814 Mo. Stec. xix. on paper

In favour of free trade, and even of placing no restriction whatever on the
lending of money.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 229

1022 Vaillant (J.) Numismata Imperatorum Eomanorum

2 vol. 4ito. Smc. xvii. on paper

1023 Valerius Maximtis de Eactis et Dictis memorabilibus

Dutch green morocco, gilt edges 8vo. Smc. xv, (1480) on yellum

A very important manuscript, in which are to be found the chapters (viginti
quatuor Exempla) discovered by a friend of Aldus in the Vienna Codex,
and transmitted to that celebrated printer, who cancelled a sheet (a) in his
first edition of 1502, to insert these " inedita" as he considered them
erroneously, they having already appeared in the Leipzig Edition of 1501.
These Exempla occur in so very few manuscripts of this author, that
not above three or four copies containing them are known. This manu-
script appears to have been written in 1480, "per me Johannem bruneval
in artibus magistrum et in theologia baccalarium et flnitusA.D. mcccclxxx
die xvii mensis marcii pro venerabili et circumspecto viro magistro Guil-
lelmo Brisset " (Canon of Soissons and Rector of the University of Paris).

1024 Vall^; (Laurentii) de Eomani Sermonis Elegantia Libri VI.

folio. S^EC. XV. ON PAPER,

With the name of the scribe : " Federicus Petri Filius hoc scripsit

agens annum xvi, a.d. mcccclxxxv- Diebus April." Manuscripts with
the date and name of so young a transcriber, are of uncommon occurrence.

1025 Valle (Pauli de, " Eomani Soeietatis Jesu ") Tractatus de mixtis

inanimatis imperfectis et perfectis. Studente et scribente D. Marco
Antonio Casali Placentino Cler. Eeg. ante Eeligionis Ingressum in
Collegio Eomano, Anno 1585 4>to. SiEC. xvi. (1585) on paper

This is a complete and unpublished treatise on meteorology, &c. consisting of
484 leaves, and containing curious information respecting the history of
natural philosophy.

1026 Valpt (E.) Diatribe de Verbo Cerno

calf gilt 8vo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

1027 Vasari (Cav. Griorgio) Proportioni Geometriche

vellum 4ito. Sjec. xvi. on paper

From an old note on the back it would appear that this volume, which is full of
drawings relating to practical geometry, is in the handwriting of the Cavalier
Giorgio Vasari, the celebrated biographer of the Italian artists. But
although the handwriting of the descriptions, which is very fine, un-
doubtedly belongs to the sixteenth century, some of the authors quoted in
this manuscript seem to preclude such an origin, and very likely it belonged
to his nephew, who published some of the works of Giorgio. For the
history of Geometry in Tuscany this is an invaluable manuscript, as it not
only contains curious information relating to the celebrated Cupola of the
Domo of Florence, and the manner hi which during the sixteenth century
arches were made in Tuscany, but also because it gives the names and the
inventions of several Tuscan geometricians, as Francesco da Montaguto,
Averardo da Filicaia, and others almost entirely unknown (including the
author himself, who often says, trovato da me). But the chief interest is
derived from an invention intended to make practically a triangle equivalent
to a circle (by taking the semi-diameter of it as the basis of a triangle, the
eighth of which is three times and \ of the basis) which invention is at •
tributed to Ostilio Ricci, who was the teacher from whom Galileo, con-
cealed behind a curtain, learned geometry rather surreptitiously. This we
think is the first instance in which the name of O. Ricci occurs as con-
nected with geometry, except in the biography of his illustrious pupil.
Targioni (Notizie Sulla Storia, etc. p. 298) speaks of a manuscript concerning
Arithmetic by the same Ricci ; but he does not mention either Ricci, Mon-
tagnto or Filicaia amongst the Tuscan geometricians.

230

THE LIEEI MANUSCRIPTS.

1028

Yegetii (Flav. Eenati) v. c. et ill. eptthoma (sic) eei militaeis

LIBEI NUMEEO IIII INCIPIUNT

brown morocco extra, gilt edges oy Niedre 4<io. Sjec. xi. on vellum

Manuscripts of Vegetius, especially ancient ones, are of such rare occurrence,
that Hsenel found only a few throughout all Europe, the whole of them of
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This one is very valuable, not only
on account of its antiquity, but also on account of the important various
readings it contains. The work is here divided into four books, but it
contains, at the end, an addition, De hello navali, which sometimes is
considered as a fifth book. The numerical figures are both according to
the ancient Eoman system, and to the Greek alphabetical arithmetic. As
an instance of the various readings we subjoin the end of the work as in
the manuscript, and in the editio princeps (Romce, 1487 in 4to.) :

Manuscript.

" Bipennis est secuvis habens ex utra-
que parte latissiraum et auctissimum
ferrum. Per has in medio ardore pug-
nandi peritissimi nautse vel milites coti-
dianis utuntur excubiis. Reticendum
puto de reliquis quia amplius artis
huius frequentior usus invenit quam
vetus doctrina demonstraverit."

1029

1030

Edition.

" Bipennis est securis habens ex utra-
que parte latissimum et acutissimum
ferrum. Per has in medio ardore pug-
nandi peritissimi nautas vel milites cum
minoribus scaphulis secreto incidunt
funes, quibus adversariorum ligatas sunt
gubernacula. Quo facto statim capitur
tanquam inermis et debilis navis. Quid
enim superest ei qui amiserit clavum.
De lusoriis queis in danubio quotidianis
utuntur excubiis reticendum puto :
quia artis amplius in his frequentior
usus invenit : quam vetus doctrina
monstraverit."

A curious additional fact is, that while the work of Vegetius is generally stated
to have been dedicated by the author to Valentianus II, at the bottom
of the first page of the present manuscript we find it dedicated ad Theodo-
sium Imperatorem, which is likewise the case in that of the twelfth century,
belonging to Lincoln College, Oxford. Perhaps the work was successively
dedicated to both those emperors. (See facsimile) .

Veqetii Eenati (Elavii) Epitoraa Eei Militaris
stained folio. SiEC. xiv. paetlv on papee and paetlt on vellum

This valuable manuscript has not the address to the Emperor Theodosius, which
is in the previous one, but exhibits several readings which deserve atten-
tion. As a sample we select the following, taken from the last chapter :

Manuscript. Edition.

" In ejus modi certamine tria armamen- " In hujus modi certamine tria armorum

torum genera qui bellatores genera qui bellatores sive

hostium sive nautas." nautas."

Here as well as in the description of the previous manuscript we quoted the
Editio princeps because its text was reproduced with very little variation
in more modern editions.

Ye gii (Maphaei) de Perseverantia Liber incipit et prinio de tranquillo
Statu Eeligionis, &c. calf Mo. Sjbo. xv. on vellum

Written upon pure Italian vellum, with illuminated capitals, the first having a
border. This work " de Perseverantia Religionis Libri VI.," was printed
at Paris in 1511, omitting apparently the seventh book, which in this
manuscript treats, " de Meditatione ultimi Judicii." At the end is a
Translation of a Treatise of S. Johannes Chrysostomus, written in double
columns. On an old fly leaf, preserved at the end, there are some Latin
verses written by different hands, and more ancient than the work of
Vegius. On the same leaf, there is the following inscription, much defaced,
" Iste .... monastery Set! .... quern donavit nobis dominus Bartolomeus
Eovarella (?) archcps Eavennensis."

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 231

1031 Vegti (Scipionis, " Prothophysici Mediolanensis ") Ephemeridum

Libri II. Accedunt Gaudentii Merula3 suae iEtatis Rerum Gestarum
Libri IV. 4to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

An interesting manuscript, consisting of 246 pages. The work of Vegius is a con •
tinuation, from the year 1522, of another work of Vegius, called " Historia
rerum gestarum (in Italia) sub Gallorum dominio." According to Argelati,
both these important works of Vegius and Merula are unpublished.

1032 Venetia. A large quantity of Original Deeds, on Vellum, consisting

of Legal Decrees, Wills, Gifts, and Sales of Land, Marriage Con-
tracts and Settlements, Arbitrations, Inventories, Agreements, &c.
with the Official Signatures SiEC. xv, xvi, xvii. on vellum

The earliest in this Collection is dated 1477, and the latest 1699. Besides
being illustrations of the manners and customs of the Venetians, these
deeds are of considerable historical value for the genealogical history of the
greatest Venetian families.

1033 Venetia. Conjura Dni Beomontis Theupuli simul con Domino Marco

Quirino et Conjuratis contra Ducale Dominium 1310, Die 15 Junii
Venetiis (Auctore Caroldo) 4do. S^ec. xvii. on paper

A very interesting account of this conspiracy, written in Italian, and containing
the sentences against the offenders. This is the work which Daru has
quoted in his Histoire de Venise, from a manuscript which he found at the
Bibliotlieque de V Arsenal, in Paris.

1034 Venetia. Relationi d'Ambasciatori Veneziani — Relatione di

Carlo Quinto del 1557 — Relatione di Mar. Giustini-ano al Re di
Erancia — Relatione del Duca di Savoia — Relatione del Duca di
Eiorenza — Relatione del Turco, 1554
vellum 4tto. SiEC. xvii. on paper

Written in a very distinct Italian hand, and dated " 1609 a 2 di Janu0."

1035 Venetia. Relatione di Roma fatta da Ranieri Zeno

4to. S^ec. xvii. ON PAPER
From the Colonna Library. This work, which does not appear to have been
published, gives, curiously enough, an account of the policy to be adopted
per la liberta a" Italia. It is written with great freedom, and gives important
information relating to the Popes Gregory XV. and Urban VIIL We did
not find this Relatione mentioned in the Saggio by M. Cicogna, who gives
a very curious account of the extraordinary adventures of this Ranieri Zeno,
who was stabbed in the palace of the Doge by his political enemies. Fos-
carini (Lett. Ven. p. 301,) speaks of this ambassador as being too hot, and
certainly he could not fail to appear so when writing in favour of the
Liberta d"1 Italia. This copy seems to be the identical one described in
an excellent Catalogue of Manuscripts (No. 211), published in 1829, by
Mr. Cochrane, and compiled by the late much lamented Mr. Holmes of the
British Museum. There is another copy amongst the Manoscritti Capponi.

1036 Venetia. Relatione di Roma fatta nel Senato Veneto da Ranieri

Zeno 4<to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

1037 Venetia. Ordine delle Battaglie (1685-95) formate dalli Eccelmi

Gene, in Capite della Serenissma- Repubca- di Venetia

oblong Svo. SiEC. xvii. on paper

It relates to the Venetian wars in Greece, and gives the strategic representation
of the whole of the battles fought there during that period.

1038 Venetia. Libro nel quale vi sono le Ballottazioni delle Famiglie

fatte Nobili per benemerito della guerra di Chiozza et altre Curio-
sita folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

A curious historical collection. It contains a tract relating to Baiamonte
Tiepolo; a Ragguaglio, written by a Genoese, of the Guerra di Chioza ;
a "parte" for the expulsion of the Jews, &c.

232 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

1039 Verantii (Antonii, " Archiepiscopi Strigoniensis ") Oratio ad Rudol-

phum Archiducis Austrise venientem Pos. ad ineundam Coronationem,
a.d. mdlxx. Die vero Sept. xxi. folio. S.&C. xvi. on paper

This Ant. Verantius was the father of that Faustus Verantius, a Dalmatian,
who, about the end of the sixteenth century, published an exceedingly-
scarce book in which there are several plates representing suspension
bridges (See Farlati Illyricum Sacrum, vol. IV, p. 484).

1040 Yerini (Ugolini) Descriptio metrica Urbis Florentine et Virorum.

ill. Gesta prseclara et Proluin Florentinarum Origo

folio. SiEC. Xvi. ON PAPER

As is well-known, Ugolino Verino, the intimate friend of Marsilio Ficino, is
much praised by Politian. He was one of the best scholars of his time, and
his verses are always flowing and easy, but not of equal elegance. He died
in 1505. This manuscript appears to be the original of the poem, without
the additions introduced into the printed edition.

1041 Veterinaria. Arte Yeterale overo Meneschalcaria

4ito. Sjec. xvi. ON PAPER

A curious unpublished manuscript, with drawings of surgical instruments, &c,
one at the end representing a cross-bun to be made according to magic for
the cure of the worms. This manuscript belonged to " Jacob. Fr. Via
C. R. Placentinus."

1042 Veterinaria. Trattato quasi esclusivamente d'Ippiatrica tolto da

molti Antichi principalmente Grreci con diversi stravaganti Segreti
per Malattie d'Uommi 2 parts in lvol. 8vo. Smc. xvi. on vellum

This interesting volume contains two works on the same subject, and also many
valuable prescriptions relating to several arts : for instance, " A far bianco
di negro ; a far lettere indorate," &c.

1043 Via Salutis. Incipit Liber qui vocatur Via Salutis vel Dieta. Acce-

dunt : Chronicon breve ; Preces pise ; Narratiunculse ; Proverbia
Italice, &c. 4do. S^c. xv. on paper

An autograph manuscript of Stephen Bilicich, Abbot of St. Nicholas Portus Sibe-
nicensis (in Dalmatia), with the following inscription at the end of the Via
Salutis : " Iste liber est mei fris steph'i bilicich Abbls Mon sci Nicolai
pori sibenicen que scpsimanup pa Sub millio cccc0 xlviiii0 die vo quato
mes. Junii." The Chronicon breve (commencing 1421 and ending 1453)
which follows the Via Salutis, although chiefly confined to the date of the
consecration of churches and the obituaries of his contemporaries, contains
also such entries as the following :

" 1432 die 24 mens. Feb. venernnt Turclri usque ad villain quae vocatur srima.

1444 die 12 mens. Madii suspensus fuit Georgius Mazorita cum sex suis sociis.
1450 Fuit mortalitas maxima in Sibenico et in dicto millio fuit Jubileus tem-
pore Nicolai quinti.

1445 die 19 mensis Aprilis ego fr. Stepbanus Bilicich fui positus in corporali

possessione in Abbatia Monasterii S. Nicolai Portus Sibenicensis, &c.
14lviii (sic) mensis Augusti die xxiiii in Festo S. Bartolomei Apostoli civitas
Sibenici fuit combusta in majori parte aborea."

At folio 80 is a Medical Kecipe for defacing old ink, and a Key for
a Correspondence in Cypher. On the reverse of folio 85 are Directions
for Monks. On folio 88 are Italian Proverbs in Rhyme, in the Venetian
Dialect ; followed by Medical and Chemical Recipes, in old Italian, to make
ink, and the manner of using gold in illuminating manuscripts, &c.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 233

EIGHTH DAY'S SALE.

LOT

1044 VlAGGlO DA FlRENZE A GrERTTSALEMME 4to. SjEC. XV. (1489) ON PAPER

An autograph unpublished account of an exceedingly interesting journey, replete
with curious information respecting the habits and state of eastern countries.
It contains also the whole of the Oraiiones to be recited by pilgrims to the
Holy Land. At the end of the introduction, the author says that his name
will be explained by tracing the initial letters. But beyond the christian
name of Ser Michele, we can find no trace. This work seems at least as
worthy of publication as were the Viaggio of Sigoli and that of Mariano da
Siena.

1045 ViBEMNiE (Caii) G-esta Porsenn^: Eegis et Clusinorum nuperime

reperta Sermone Thusco L. Datho interprete
russia small 4<to. Sjec. xv. on yellum

Beautifully written on vellum, with the first initials and the arms of the original
owner richly illuminated. This apocryphal History of the Deeds of Porsenna
has not been published. It is considered a literary forgery by Leonardo
Dati, Bishop of Massa, who pretended to have discovered an original
manuscript of Caius Vibemna, written in the ancient language of
Etruria. Prefixed is a Preface, addressed to Pius II. (iEneas Sylvius) who
was elected Pope in 1458, and died in 1464. A very curious fact is that in
this forgery there are the names and the arms of numerous modern Tuscan
families, supposed to have been in existence at the time of the Etruscans.

1046 Vicot (Pierre) et Nicolas de Valois, Les trois Livres

folio. Smc. xvii. on paper

A very elaborate treatise on Alchemy, consisting of about 400 pages, and
containing the most curious secrets. See, for instance, p. 204, etc.

1047 VlLLANI (Giov.) ISTORIE FlORENTINE folio. S^C. xiv. ON PAPER

This very important manuscript in double columns, from the well-known
Rinuccini Library of Florence, (see also Nos. 836, 858 and 925 in the present
Catalogue) brings down the history only to 1284. The text of this manu-
script, which goes to chapter 89 of the seventh book of that celebrated old
chronicle, is excellent, and affords a great number of various readings
from the classic editions of the same work. As for instance, respecting the
preparations made by King Charles of Naples to invade Sicily after the
Vesjpri Siciliani, we read :

In the Manuscript. In the Edition of Florence

(Giunti), 1587, in 4to. p. 234.

(L)O re Carlo ragunata sua oste a Lo Re Carlo ordinata sua oste a

Napoli per andare in Cicilia, tutta sua Napoli per andare in Cicilia, tutta sua

cavalleria e giente a pie mando per oste cavalleria, e gente a pie mando per

terra in Calavria alia Cotona, incontro terra in Calavra alia Catona, incontro

a Messina ch'e il Faro in mezzo. a Messina, e' il Fare in mezzo.

Respecting the manuscripts of the Rinuccini Library see an able article
of M. Passerini in the Archivio Storico Italiano (vol. VIII, app. p. 205).

234 THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS.

1048 Vi^teis (Petri de, " Judicis et Consiliarii quondam Eriderici Impera-
toris") " Dictaminum Suma explicit scripta per me Jacobum Cransz
de Herbipoli et finita Anno dni mcccc°xliii° die mercurii que fuit
decima mensis Apprilis. Explicit de Yineis Suina Petri dictatoris
Magistrique Eximii Eriderici Imperatoris"
in the original pigskin binding, ivith clasp

folio. SJ3C. xv. oisr alternate sheets oe yelltjm and paper

This important historical manuscript contains in six parts, the letters written
by Pietro delle Vigne, usually termed Peter des Vignes, in his public and
private capacity of Secretary to the Emperor Frederic II, during his quarrel
with Pope Gregory IX, and which by the learned are looked upon as one
of the most precious documents that have come down to us. The first
page of this manuscript has a capital illuminated in gold and colours,
and is surrounded by an ornamented border. On the cover is pasted
a cotemporary German document from the Council of Nuremberg. It
would be very useful to a new editor to collate this manuscript. The
very beginning of the first letter compared with the edition of Iselius (Basle,
1740, 2 vol. 8vo.) will show how abundant is the manuscript in various
readings :

Manuscript. Edition.

" Collegerunt pontifices et pharisey Collegerunt pontifices et pharasasi con-

Consilium in unum et adversus princi- silium in unum adversus principem et
pern christum deura convenerunt quid." Romano-ruin Imperatorem quid."

On the first leaf there is a curious epistola metrica of the Emperor to the
Pope, with the answer of the Pontif.

1049 Virgilii Marokes iEtfEYDOS Libri XII. Accedunt Virgilii Tetras-
ticon, Disticon et Versus de se ipso ; Epitaphia super Tumulum
Yirgilii facta a XII Sapientibus ; Exprobatio Virgilii in Vetulam ;
Epithaphia Hectoris et Achillis ; Ille ego qui quondam, &c; Versus
XXII ( Jamque adeo, &c.) quos Varius et Tucca sustulisse dicuntur ;
Thomse de Aquino versus super Tumulum S. Petri Martyris, &c. —

CAPRA AUREA SUPER ENEIDOS VlRGILII 4itO. S^C. xiv. ON VELLTJM

Written on 178 leaves of ancient vellum (several of which are palimpsest, the
original work having been eradicated with pumice-stone,) with the Rubrics
in red ink, and the capitals in colours. In a cotemporary hand, but smaller,
are interlineary notes or glosses, evidently the work of a scholar, who has
also transcribed the Moretum of Virgil, to fill a blank leaf at end. Pre-
fixed to each book are arguments in verse, omitted in the printed editions ;
that in Book I, is headed with " Incipiunt Versus Ovidii continentes totam
materiam fig, libri Eneydos Virgilii." There are several valuable readings
to be gleaned from this manuscript. The work of Capra Aurea (Simon
Chevre d'or), who was a Canon of St. Victor in the twelfth century, is in-
teresting. The only other copy of this Poem which we have been able to
trace, is described in the Catalogus Bibliothecai Reg. Paris. (MSS.
Latins, No. 8430). It has the Colophon, " Explicit Uias aMagistro Symone
Aurea Capra scilicet ab ipso nondum canonicato incomparabiliter edita et
ab eodem canonicato mirabiliter correcta et amplificata." The Poem of
Capra Aurea consists of more than 400 verses, and is one of the earliest
attempts to revive classical literature in modern Europe ; but the work
is so scarce (only another manuscript of it being supposed to exist) that
it is almost unknown. It escaped the notice of Leyser, and the name
of its author is merely mentioned by Lebeuf (Memoires, vol. II, p. 262).
The learned authors of the Histoire Litierairc dela France (vol. XII, p. 488),
gave an abstract of this singular poem. In the last leaf of this volume,

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 235

the handwriting of the ancient manuscript which was erased (and which
was a folio size) is still perceptible, but the only thing which we were able
to ascertain is that the old characters were larger than the present one, and
that the old lines ran perpendicularly to the present. This manuscript
belonged to the celebrated Saibante Collection at Verona, and formerly it
was in the still more celebrated Medicean Library, as appears from
the following inscription written on the reverse of the last leaf: Questo
libro si e di .... dei Medici.

1050 Viegilii Maeonis JEkeydos Libbi XII

morocco folio. S^ec. xiv. on telltjm

A very elegant manuscript on vellum, written by an Italian scribe for one of
the noble Venetian family of Giustiniani, having introduced as initials to
the various books miniature portraits of doges and senators of that
patrician race. The Argumenta in verse (in some manuscripts attributed
to Ovid) are prefixed to each book. Many interesting various readings are
written on the margins of this important volume, and at the beginning
there are glosses in all probability written by Bernardus Justinianus, the
celebrated historian of Venice, a collector of precious manuscripts, and
who is believed to have been the possessor of the Ciceronian work,
De Gloria, now lost. On the last leaf, among the signatures of different
members of the Giustiniani family, we find the following autograph memo-
randum by this celebrated man : " Iste liber est mei Bernardi lustiniani
fillij domini Leonardi Justiniani qui morat in ora Sancti Santini." Then
we find (in a more ancient hand) precii ducati xxiii, which was a very con-
siderable sum for the time (about one hundred pounds of the present money)
and may give an idea of the importance of this volume even in olden times.
In another memorandum it is stated, Precij ducati 20 emendavit. And
the names of Benedictus and Leonardo Giustiniani, (all celebrated men of
the same family, and the last an early Italian poet) are written also on the
same page. (Respecting Virgil, see also Nos. 460, 836, 935-937, 1004,
etc. in the present Catalogue.)

1051 Viegilii (Marcelli, "Florentini") Index Alphabeticus Plantarum quae

a Dioscoride describuntur 4tto. Smc. xvi. on papeb

An autograph important work for the reading of Dioscorides, as it furnishes the
Latin names of the plants with botanical descriptions.

1052 ViBTTTTUM Tractatus. Incipit Summa de Virtutibus

calf, arms on the sides 4ito. S^ec. xiv. on tellum

From the library of the monastery of S. Justina de Padua, and subsequently
in the library Sti# Georgii Maioris Venetiarum.

1053 Vitjs Sanctoeum. Vita S. Csecilise — Vita Beatissimse Paulse Ro-

mans nobilis Matronse apud Benticem quiescentis, e Vita a Domno
Jeronimo Presbytero, quse comemoratur V Kl. Febr. — Passio S.
Eomani Monachi, Esichyi Palatini et Barilla) Infantis — Vita S.
Gengulfi Martyris — Libellus de quattuor Virtutibus id est Pru-
dentia, Fortitudine, Temperantia atque Justitia Martini " Archie-
piscopi Braccarensis " ad Mironem Regem (Formula Vitas honesta3
Martini) — Passio Beati Gordiani et Beati Viri Martini — De
Oedine Psallendi, &c. Incipit : " Initium autem psallendi in
ecclesia extitit," explicit "In sublimissimam contemplationem " —
Lttpus "Waldoni suo de Vita S. Maximini Episcopi Treverensis
original hinding square small 4<to. Sjsc. ix. on vellum

This manuscript, consisting of about 300 pages, is written by different hands (some
fine, but some very rude). The pages 79 — 84 are filled with an old hymn,
containing ancient musical notes. The three leaves of the Ordo psallendi
(which are inserted in the Passio, B. Gordiani) contain curious information
about the ancient liturgy, and show that, even at that period, it was the
custom to sing at the time of the communion. Concerning St. Gengulfus,
see also No. 769 in the present Catalogue (See facsimile) .

236 THE LIBEI MANT7SCKIPTS.

1054 Vita S. Syri Episcopi Ticinensis et S. Juentii. Depositio Beati

Confessoris Satyri sedita ab ejusdem Sanctissimo Fratre Ambrosio
Episcopo Mediolanensis Ecclesise 4&to. Smc. ix. on vellum

A fine manuscript written in very nice Carlovingiari characters, having the
titles in red rustic capitals. (See facsimile)

1055 Vita Sancti Burchardi Angli — GESTAbeatissimiMartyris Kyliani

(Scoti) ac Sociorum ejus 4<to. SiEC. ix-x. on vellum

St. Burchard, an Englishman of noble family, was the companion of St. Boni-
face, and bishop of Wiirtzburg, from 752 to 791. St. Kylian, has
generally been considered an Irish saint. In this life he is distinctly
described " Scotorwn genere nobilibus ortus parentibus" but it is well-known

that at that time " Scotia Hibemia dicebatur." He was also

bishop of Wiirtzburg, and a martyr, in the year 689. This manuscript is
written in fine large Carlovingian characters, with the headings partly
in red uncials, and partly in rustic capital letters. In some Latin words
there are accents like neumes. At the end are the following verses written
by another hand :

" Hie italus floreat quo francia lenta laboret
Ingenium pensat. Kiliani famina densat
Quern leo dum voluit pede cautus lumina torsit."
(See facsimile.)

1056 Vita S. Thomse Aquinatis — Passio S. Lacari martiris — Vita S.

Monacae S. Augustini Matris 4>to. S^ec. xiv. on vellum

The cover is made of an ancient Litany of vellum, with musical notes. An
Italian note at the beginning states that this manuscript is unpublished.

1057 Vitje et Sermones Sanctorum ; Sermones de Purificacione, &c. B.

Mariae : de Nativitate, &c. Opuscula Theologica et alia

4ito. Smc. xiv. on yellum

Containing a great number of Lives. Amongst them are to be found those of
S. George, S. Columbanus, and others connected with English history.

1058 Vit.e et Legends Sanctorum

vellum Mo. SjEC. xiv.-xv. on yellum

A collection of nearly 200 Lives of Saints, some of which (for instance, the
lives of S. Genuarius, S. Lupus, S. Martinus, S. Leodegarius, etc.) are very
important for the historian of the Middle Ages. At the end there is this
inscription, De libraria Sancti Bernardi.

1059 ViTiE Sanctorum, in the original oak boards, with brass bosses

square folio. Smc. xv. on yellum

This important manuscript, (consisting of 333 leaves, written in Italy, in double
columns, in a fine hand) contains an immense number of Lives of different
Saints, several of which, like those of S. Benedictus, S. Lupus, S. Egidius,
S. Bricius, &c. are intimately connected with the general history of France and
Italy during the Middle Ages. At the end there is an inscription in Italian,
with the date 1464, curiously written thus : " MCCCC64," which is rather
unusual in the history of Arithmetic.

Concerning other " Vitse Sanctorum," see also Nos. 140, 269, 465, 491,

495, 496, 626, 683, 742, 748, 760, 767, 769, 938, 1009, 1103, etc., in

the present Catalogue.

1060 Vita Cristi, two pages, on yellum, written in the XVth Century —

Sermo B. Bernardi de Miseria humana, on paper — Trattatello
della Umanita di Gesu Cristo, on paper and yellum, with one
of the 50 copies of the work printed from this manuscript
Venezia, 1830 in one vol. 4<to. Smc. xy. on yellum and paper

This Trattatello seems to be unique. It is written in the purest old Italian lan-
guage. The printed copy (from this manuscript) is on large blue paper.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 237

1061 Vita di San Greronimo — Hethica de Aristotile — Descrittione della

Terra folio. S,ec. xv. on paper

Three Italian works, written in the purest old Italian, and deserving the attention
of Italian scholars. The Cosmographical work is very interesting and un-
published. Amongst other things it contains a description of England,
Ireland, and Iceland. At the beginning of the Ethica a subsequent owner
has written the date of 1514. We learn from Marsand that none of these
works are in existence in the libraries of Paris, as the Vita contained in
the No. 7712 of the Bibliotheca Regia of Paris is quite different from the
Vita which is here, as may easily be ascertained from the perusal of the
quotation given by Marsand.

1062 Vita della B. Angela Fondatrice della Compagnia delle Vergini di S.

Orsola 4<to. Sjec. xvii. on paper

1063 Voyage de Munich a Prague et de Prague a Anvers

4ito. Smc. xviii. on paper

Containing descriptions of churches, paintings, antiquities, libraries, &c.
at the principal cities and towns. This Voyage took place about the
beginning of the eigthteenth century, and this Relation, which seems auto-
graph, contains much curious information about monuments and manuscripts
which have been lost subsequently. The first leaf is wanting.

1064 Vrahnaradhi Pitrana, a Poem in Sanscrit

green morocco folio. S^c. xviii. on paper

Very finely written.

1065 Wakadi (Abu 'Abdallah Mtjhammad-al- Wakadi) the " Fatiih-al-

Sham," or History of the Mohammedan Conquests in Syria, Egypt
and Arabia, by the Generals of 'Omar, in Eorty-two Battles, a.d. 638
and 639, Arabic, in the Naskh character
in red sheep, with case 4to. S^:c. xvii. on paper

Wakadi Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad, son of 'Omar-al-WakadI, was a learned
man, who flourished in the second century of the Hegira. From this work,
Ockley has taken almost the whole of his first volume of the History of
the Saracens.

This important work of Wakadi, who was almost contemporary with the
events he relates, is well known to Orientalists; but only a very small
portion of it was published. Hamaker published in 1825, a History of the
Conquest of Egypt, attributed to Wakadi, but of which the real author
is still uncertain.

1066 Wakiyat-i-Sind. History of the Country of Scinde, and Account of

the Eamily of Kulhara, who ruled there previous to the Talpiira
Family, called the Ameers of Scinde, in Persian

4to. SiEc. xviii. on paper

An elegantly written manuscript by an author who does not give his name, but
who styles himself " Fakir." The work gives an account of the actions
of Sirbuland Khan, and his brothers, and includes a narrative of the invasion
of Scinde by Ahmad Shah 'Abdallah, King of Afghanistan. It is unpub-
lished.

1067 Walpole (Sir Robert) Lettre au Sujet de la derniere Guerre, avec la

Reponse d'un Craftsman 4ito. SiEC. xviii. on paper

1068 Walteri (Beati, " in Sacra Pagina Magistri Parisiensis ") Liber de

Reformatione Animse ad Imaginem Dei 4<to. SiEC. xv. on paper

Formerly belonging to the Monastery of " St. Justina de Padua," and afterwards
to that of " S. Georgii Majoris de Venetiis." The name of the scribe
appears at end " Ego Do. Eusebius hunc scripsi Do. Theophillo in nostro
Sanctse Justinae Monasterio Librum quern mutuo Dedi." No trace of this

238 THE LIBEI MANUSCBIPTS.

work or its author is to be found in Fabricms, or elsewhere, unless it is the
same as the unpublished Qucestiones de Anima, attributed by Leland to
Walter Heston, an English Carmelite, who lived about the year 1350, or
the Tractatus de Nobilitate Anima;, by Walter Hilton, another English
author, who lived about 1430, and of whom a manuscript with this title is
quoted hi the " Catalogus Bibl. Regiae Paris." (MSS. Latins, No. 3610).

1089 Weights and Measures. Table de la Correspondance des Poids

beautifully written, red morocco oblong 12mo. Sjec. xviii.

This curious manuscript, written before the new Systeme metrique, gives the
correspondance between the weights and measures of several towns of
France, Germany, England, and Italy (Lyons, Toulouse, Rouen, Marseilles,
&c.) which were all different.

1070 Whiston (W.) Course of Lectures for the Hydrostatical and Pneu-

matical Experiments, begun at Cambridge and continued in London,
composed by Roger Cotes and William Winston 4do. Sjec. xviii.

Prefixed are the printed " Experiments to be perform'd by F. Hawksbee, and
the Lectures read by W. Whiston,11 with plates.

1071 Wynants (Comte de) Memoire Manuscrit touchantle G-ouverneinent,

folio. Sjec. xviii. on paper
Chiefly relating to Belgium and Flanders.

1072 Xenophontis Opusculum de Vita tirannica et privata e Gra?co in

Latinura versum per Leonardum Aretinum — Basilh (D.) Oratio ad
Adolescentulos L. Aretino interprete — Vergeritts (P. P.) de
ingenuis Moribus Opusculum — Homeri Orationes L. Aretino inter-
prete— Justlniani (L.) de Funere Caroli Zeni Oratio

4to. SiEC. XV. ON PAPER

The translation of the treatise by Xenophon, entitled " Tyrannus," says
Fabricms, " nondum pa/ruit." The Oration of St. Basil was printed in
1497, in which year also appeared in print the work of Yergerius. The
version of Homer's Orations is still unpublished. The Oration of Jus-
tinianus was printed in 1492. This manuscript formerly belonged to the
celebrated Apostolo Zeno ; it has his bookplate, and some notes in his hand-
writing at the beginning.

1073 Yahud bust Is-hak-al-Farsi. The " Kalilah wa-Damnah " Stories in

Arabic, translated from the Persian " Anwar-i-Suhaili"
half bound folio. SvEC. xvi. on glazed Indian paper

This is one of the most celebrated Eastern works, which, coming from India,
was translated into every Oriental language, and from the Hebrew into
Latin, by Johannes de Capua. It has been largely illustrated by Baron
De Sacy. (See Notices et Extraits, vol. IX. part, lre- p. 363).

1074 Zachari^e (ChrisopolitaDi) Episcopi Commentaritjm in Concord lam

EVANGELICAM AmMONII AlEXANDRINI

in the original oak boards folio. Sjec. xii. ON yelltjm

A most valuable manuscript evidently cotemporary with the author himself, who
was born in the early part of the twelfth century, at Goldsborough, in
Yorkshire. From his birthplace, Latinized, he became Chrysopolitanus,
and thus gave rise to the error of his having been Bishop of Chrysopolis,
although the prefaces to his work simply state them to be Zacharie Epis-
copi, or Zacharie Crisopolitani. At a very early age Zacharias proceeded
to France, and, on his arrival in that country, appears to have embraced
the rule of the Premontres, in the Abbey of St. Martin, at Laon,
where he divided his time between study and devotion. The time of his
death is not recorded, but that he was alive in 1157 is certain. The Com-
mentary of Zacharias is a sort of cento composed of quotations from the
ancient writers, made with considerable taste, and preceded by three pre-

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 239

faces, the first treating of the excellency of the gospel, the style of the
Evangelists, &c. ; the second containing the lives of the Evangelists ; and
the third noticing the writers, who, previous to himself, have shown the
harmony of the gospels. For a new edition of this learned Englishman's
Commentary, this ancient manuscript would be of great importance. A fact
worth notice is, that all the numerical figures contained in this finely written
manuscript of several hundred pages, are in the Roman system, without
any idea whatever of the Arabic numeration. On the cover inside there
is pasted a fragment of a Latin manuscript of the tenth century. As usual
at that time, this manuscript seems to have been offered to some (English ?)
church of the Virgin, as is apparent from the dedication written on the
first page by a cotemporary hand, in which the name of the donor,
Richardus, occurs:

" Accipe stella maris lux vitse ianua celi.
Bichardi munus oblatum corde fideli
Vt post vitalem decurso tempore meta
Et merear sortem te suffragante quieta."
See facsimile.

1075 Zecchiis alias Terracina (Leonardo, " Conservators delliRegii Campioni

della Reg. Zecca delle Monete ") Relatione fatta l'Anno 1555 —
Relatione fatta dal Griudice Roberto G-enovese, 1582
Transcripts from the originals 4do. SiEC. xviii. on paper

This history of the early coins of the kingdom of Naples (with their value and
weight) is very interesting.

1076 Zij Muhammad ShakT, Solar and Lunar Tables ; also Tables of

the Planets, calf folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

This valuable manuscript was probably compiled for the learned Orientalist
Wm. Hunter, as it bears his autograph signature and additions. It
subsequently belonged to Sir T. Stamford Raffles. These tables on
Oriental paper were written in the east, and as the Arabic names of the
months are mentioned they were most probably translated from the Arabic
or Persian.

1077 Ziegleri (Jacobi) Palestina. Evangelica? Historic et Actuum Aposto-

lorura Itinerarium. Sehondia, Grcenlandia, &c. Crudelitas Christierni
Regis Daniae perpetrata in Proceres Suetise et Populum Llolmensem,
&e. 4>to. SiEC. xvi. on paper

An autograph manuscript of a very interesting work, with the maps neatly
drawn.

1078 Zucchetti (Decano Sebastiano) Raccolta di Poesie Euggitive e Prose

4do. SiEC. xviii. on paper

Containing autograph poems by Camillo Ranieri Zuchetti, Contadino Mancini,
Alessandro Guidi, &c. ; several autograph letters of the Abate Quechetti j
Political Discourses ; Relations of the Venetian Ambassadors, Basadonna
and Erizzo, at Rome ; &c, &c. Some of those poems are addressed to the
Stuarts, then as exiled princes at Rome. A beautiful and martial Canzone
of Guidi is addressed to Italy, but at the top of it, in a handwriting of the
written " Canzone del Sigr Alessandro Guidi che non e stampata . . .
per degni rispetti." (! ! !.)

240 THE L1BEI MANUSCRIPTS.

SUPPLEMENT.

LOT

1079 Abu Muhammad 'Abd-Allah-al-Khazraji (Dhiya-al-Dm), a Commentary

upon the metrical work of Abii Muhammad, entitled" Al-Khazrajiyat,"
by Badr-al-Dln bin 'Omar— -Sharh-al- And altjsi, a Commentary
upon the 'Ariidh or Metrics of Abfi-al-Taish-al-Andalusi — The Text
of the Metrical Treatise of Abu-al-Jaish folio. S^c. xviii. oisr paper

For an account of the Kasidah-al-Khazrajiyat, called also Ramizah, see Haji
Khalfa, (Vol. III., p. 340, and Vol. IV. p. 536). The Khazrajlyat is also
mentioned again by Haji Khalia in his notice of the 'Arudh-al-AndalusI
(vol. IV. p. 200). See also Casiri {Bill. Arab. Hlsp. vol. II. p. 42.)

Both these works are celebrated among the Arabs, and Muhammad bin
Abi Bakr-al-Damamlni states that when he first obtained a copy of the
Khazrajlyat, he was so delighted with it, that he gave up the society of his
friends, and would scarcely allow himself any sleep in his eagerness to
master the work.

1080 Abu-al-Kastm Muhammad Ibn Muhammad-al-Simawi-al-'Iraki,

"JKitab Akalim-al-Saba't "or" Risalah Haft Iklim." A Geographical
Description of the " Seven Regions " in Persian

8^0. S^ec. xviii. oisr paper

This work is mentioned by D'Herbelot at the article, Ketab Acalim Alsebaat.
It is, like all the ancient descriptions of the earth, full of useful inform-
ation, mixed with the most extraordinary tales. As a sample, the author
mentions wheat the size of hen's eggs ; a fountain which will prolong life
to 500 years, but rendering the drinker an eunuch ; a city called Nahawund
(said to have been built by Noah), in which exists a stone, near which any
one sleeping will dream of what he must do to obtain his object.

1081 Abu-al-Kasim 'Abd-al-Malik Ibn 'Abd-Allah Ibn Badrim-al-Hazrami

" Sharh-al-' Abdunia." Tbe History of the Conquest of Ctesiphon,
Seleucia, &c. by the Caliphs (in Arabic)
red morocco 4<to. S^;c. xvi. oisr glazed paper

A very interesting work, both for the history of the Byzantine and Mohammedan
empires, beautifully written in the Naskh character. As we have not been
able to find this author either in D'Herbelot, or in the Catalogues of the
Arabic Manuscripts in the Paris, or Medicean libraries, or in that of the
British Asiatic Society, this manuscript must be very scarce.

1081* Alberti Magni Ordinis Prsedicatorum Speculum Astrologiae

folio. Smc. xiv. oisr pape r

On a single leaf at the end, in the same handwriting as the manuscript, is a table
of the moveable feasts from 1371 to 1375, and on the back of it, the day on
which Easter will fall, from 1371 to 1380.

1082 Amaltheo (Gio. Batt. " Segretario della Eeppublica di Eagugia ")

Letter of Recommendation for M. Michel Menzi, in Italian, in the
Autograph of this distinguished Poet, dated " di Eagugia A xx di
Marzo mdlix." folio. 1559, on paper

Three autograph letters of Fr. Amalteo relating to the Italian Theatre and
Italian plays are added to the letter of G. B. Amaltheo.

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 241

10S2* Aristotelis de physico auditu Hebraice folio. S^ec. xvi. on paper

This Hebrew translation is very scarce. It is one of the few remains of the
scientific labours of the Jews during the middle ages.

1083 Amerighi (Abbate Marco) II Principe Celidoro di Persia Invenzione

favolosa al Serenissimo Ferdinando 11° Gran Duca di Toscana
vellum, with arms of the Grand Duke Ferdinand II. on sides,

folio 1666. on paper

An autograph unpublished manuscript, as presented by the author to the
Grand Duke, with the dedication dated " Firenze 20 Sette 1666." This
work seems totally unknown to all bibliographers, and even Mazzuchelli,
speaking of this author, mentions only the " Sventurate Grandezze di Oronte"
published at Rome in 1677.

1084 Barbarus (Hermolaus) Autograph Letter to the celebrated Picus

Mirandulanus, dated Kalis Januarii, 1488 folio. SiEC. xv. on paper

A very important letter, in which Ermolao Barbaro, so celebrated for his numerous
works, entreats the young Pico della Mirandola to proceed boldly in his
literary career. He speaks of Lorenzo de Medicis, Politian, Marsilius
Picinus, and other celebrated men of the time, and rejoices to hear of the
increase of the great Medicean library. See also Nos. 617 and 807 in
the present Catalogue.

10S5 Biot (J. B.) Memoire sur les Surfaces folio. S^ec. xix. on paper

Twenty-nine leaves in the autograph of Mademoiselle Sophie Germain, cele-
brated for being one of the most skilful mathematicians of her age.
See also Nos. 413 and 414 in the present Catalogue.

1086 Cameron. Extrait des Registres du Conseil d'Etat du Roy sur la

Requete presentee au Roy, par Jean Cameron de Glen Kyngy et
par la Dame Elizabeth Hamilton son Epouse

folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

Valuable for the pedigree of the Cameron family. The celebrated genealogist
d'Hozier had refused to admit the preuves de noblesse of the Misses Cameron,
but the Conseil d^Etat reversed that decision.

1087 Chinese Drawings. A collection of 92 exquisitely painted Delinea-

tions of the Costume, Butterflies, Birds, Flowers and Shipping of
China, executed in the most brilliant tints upon india or rice-paper,
by Native Artists, in the very best style of Chinese Ornamentation,
and mounted in a portfolio of tinted paper
half blue morocco oblong folio. SiEC. xix. on paper

1088 Chinese Drawings. A collection of 80 exquisitely coloured Drawings

of Fruits and Flowers, executed by a Native Artist in colours on
Chinese paper, and mounted on tinted,
half blue morocco oblong folio. SiEC. xix. on paper

To each of these beautiful drawings its name is appended in Chinese characters.

1089 Chinese Punishments. A collection of 20 Drawings, exquisitely

painted in the most vivid colours on rice-paper by a Native Artist

oblong folio. SiEC. xix. on paper

1090 Chinese Drawings. A collection of 14 Delineations of the Sports of

Children, finely painted in colours on rice-paper

folio. SiEC. Xix. ON PAPER

1091 Chinese Drawings. A collection of 12 exquisite Paintings on rice-

paper, representing the Manners and Customs of the Mandarins,
finished in the best style of Chinese Art, in gold and colours

folio. SiEC. Xix. ON PAPER
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242 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

1092 Chinese Drawings. A collection of 12 Paintings on rice-paper, in

which are represented the Cries of the Wandering Trades of China,
finely executed in brilliant colours oblong folio. Sjsc. xix. on paper

1093 Chinese Drawings. A collection of 14 curious Paintings on rice-

paper, executed in the most brilliant colours, and representing the
whole Progress of the Tea-Trade, with Views of the Islands, Canton
Hiver and Canton oblong folio. S.EC. xix. on paper

The drawings contained in the preceding seven volumes are unusually fine.

1094 Clemente X. Bandi generali da osservarsi di Commissione di 1ST. S.

Clemente Papa deciino (cum Annotationibus manuscriptis)

folio. Roma, 1674, on paper

These manuscript notes fill 265 pages, the Bandi themselves being printed.
The penalties ordered against offenders are so cruel (torture and death
being inflicted for comparatively light offences by these Bandi), that, they
seem to have emanated from some barbarous African ruler, As an instance
of the Draconian severity of these Bandi, read the following :

" Dispone pariinente sua Eminenza (il Cardinal Altieri), che qualunque persona
presumesse attaccare mettere o porre coma, pitture o altre cose vituperose e brutte
alia porta, o muro, o in strada avanti della casa d'alcuna persona benche fosse
pubblica meretrice, o fare imbrattamento d'incbiostro, o altra sporcizia, o bruttura,
incorra in pena della galera perpetua et anco della vita, seconda la qnalita del fatto,
ad arbilrio di sua Eminenza."

1095 Computus cyrometralis sive Ars Computistica et Calculatoria, tractans

de Tempore in se et Instrumentorum Partibus cum Commento —
Computus Norembergensis sive Libri duo de Motibus Solis et Lunse
et de Effectibus pervenientibus ex Motibus, cum Commento " Anno
Domini mccccxxxi0 quarta feria post Judica finitus est liber iste
per me Jacob urn Sobernheym (vel Obernheym?), &c." — Tabulae
varise et Kalendarium — Tractatus de Planetis, Stellis, &c. cum
Tabulis Motuum — Composicio novarum theoricarum cum rectilineiis
— De Horologiis faciendis — De Motu Solis et Lunse, de Eclipsibus,
&c. cum Tabulis — Compositio Quadrantis Astrolabii plani cum
Tabulis, in the original binding 4do. S^ec. xv. on paper

This valuable collection of Astronomical Treatises, apparently unpublished,
was formerly in the possession of the Monastery of St. Matthew the
Apostle, several of the pages being marked " Codex Monasterii Sancti
Matthias Apostoli." It is very distinctly written, and illustrated with
various well-drawn diagrams. The "Computus cyrometralis" is in prose and
verse, as is also the " Computus Norembergensis." The name of Sobernheym
or Obernheym is unknown to Lalande. The various tables throughout
this important manuscript are in Arabic numerals. Towards the end,
there is a table with the longitude and latitude of several towns of various
countries, including England. Inside, on the cover, there are some frag-
ments of an ancient manuscript of the IXth century. Besides the works
which we have just mentioned, there is in this volume much additional
matter, relating to astronomy, chronology, &c, &c, in the shape of
tables, notes, &c, &c, inserted throughout. The Tractatus astrolabii
begins with " Quamvis de astrolabii compositione tarn modernorum quam
veterum, &c."

1096 Conclave. Lista delle robbe che si hanno da portare in conclave per

servitio de un Cardinale — Soliloquia in conclave in quo creatus fuit
Clemens VIII. (et alia) folio. Sjec. xvii. on paper

With a very curious account (but not complete) of the adventures of some
Christian ladies amongst the Turks. The Lista is so considerable, and so
many curious things are mentioned in it, that at least some extracts from it
deserve publication.

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 243

1097 Cornelius Nepos " Emilius Probus de illustribus Ducibus exterarum

Gentium" 4do, S^ec. xv. on paper

Manuscripts of Cornelius Nepos are not of common occurrence. Only three,
with this title, are described in the great Catalogus Bibl. Regice Parisiensis.

1098 Curses De Sacramento Dominicae Passionis — Ammaesteamenti d'un

guardiano ai suoi frati 4<to. Sjec. xv. on paper

We cannot find any mention of these Ammaestramenti, written in very good
Italian, and in which St. Anselm is quoted.

1099 Douglas Peerage. Memoire an snjet d'un Quidam qui aiant epouse

pres d'Edimbourg en Ecosse en l'Annee 1748, ime fille de Qualite
agee alors de 48 ans, &c. ; Memoire sur la Plainte rendue a la Cour
par Andre Stewart, Tuteur du Due de Hamilton et Sir Ungues
D'Alrymple folio. SiEC. xviii. on paper

Two valuable official papers connected with the conspiracy of Lady Jane
Douglas, to pass a stolen child as her own, " dans la vue de donner des
Lenders a une des plus grandes et illustres Maisons de la Grande
Bretagne." See also Nos. 108G, 1 101, &c.

1100 England. A very important and valuable Collections of JNTegociations,

Official and Private Papers, Original Political Letters, &c. <fcc.

various sizes. Sjec. xvii. xviii. xix. on paper

Amongst other curious documents will be found an old transcript of a letter
from Sir Thomas Boleyn, dated Greenwich, " xiiii. jour d'aoust A° xv. et
xiiii. (1514)," and addressed to " Madame de Savoye, Regente et Gouver-
nante de Flandre," requesting her to send home his daughter, " ma fille
la petite Boulain," &c. ; various official Documents relative to the ship
Carnatic ; Documents respecting hostages and prisoners of war ; Various
Papers respecting the Establishment of the English Nuns (Sisters of St.
Clare) at Gravelines, in the XVlth century; Two original State Papers of
Sir Thomas Parry (ambassador from James I.) and Thomas Randall (with
official signatures) ; A Letter of George II. ; Papers relating to Lady Arthur ;
two curious Letters, without signature, to M. Girard ; important Papers
respecting K. William III. and the War in Flanders ; &c, &c.

1101 England. An interesting collection of Documents (mostly original)

generally relating to England and Prance

folio. SiEC. xvi. and xvii. on paper

Amongst these papers there is a Memoir on an intended invasion of England ;
The capitulations for English and Irish levies for French service ; Prison >
niers de Guerre (Anglais) faits a Denain Inventaire des chartes du Tresor
(Angleterre et Ecosse) ; Relation du combat naval de 1692; Remonstrance
au Roy d' Angleterre ; Various treatises and political memoirs relating to
England in its relations with France ; Titres de la maison d'Hamilton sur le
Duche de Chatelherault, &c.

1102 English Affairs. A valuable Collection of official and private

Documents relating to English Subjects in France, &c. with Auto-
graph Signatures S^ec. xvii. xviii. xix. on paper

Amongst others will be found an affidavit of Sir John Cocheran (Collonel
Escossois), dated 23 April 1G47; Tapers respecting the old Pketender ;
Orders for conducting 50 English prisoners to Cailly, in 17G2 ; Orders for
the distribution of officers, prisoners of war, of the garrisons at Bouchain,
Douay, and Quesnoy ; Arrest du Conseil for the entry of English fabrics,
1701 ; Official license to Richard Lancake for paper-staining, on four leaves
of vellum; Treaty of 1713; A Document on four leaves of vellum, respecting
the seizure of an English vessel, signed Colbert ; List of pensioners of
George III., and Payments in 1813, signed Ileinrich (M. de la Fare,
Evesque de Nancv) ; &c. &c.

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241 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

1103 Ermenrici Monaci, Postca Abbatts Elwangensis in Suevia, Vita

Sancti SoLiE Confessoris Christi 4to. SiEC. x. oisr vellum

St. Sola was an Englishman, and a pupil of St. Boniface, and died about the
year 790. This life was written by Ermenricus, Abbot of Elwangen
in 845, whilst he was still a deacon and monk. Manuscripts of it are of
the rarest occurrence, not one being mentioned by Montfaucon or Hsenel.
In the " Catalogus Bibl. Reg. Paris." so rich in Lives of the Saints, no copy
is to be found, neither is there any trace of the work in the great Catalogus
compiled by Bandini. The only one hitherto recorded is that which was
used for his edition by Canisius, and which is now no longer to be found.
This fine manuscript written in a large Carlo vingian character, with the title
in rustic capitals, contains interlineary annotations and grammatical
explanations, written about the tenth or eleventh century in a rude cursive
hand. Several of these glossal are in old German (for instance. " sigale. i.
roggon" "orientc ac austril versus osteruuord endisundaruuord" etc.) and
deserve peculiar attention. TJiere are also some accents in the Latin
words (for instance, traxere, ibidem, pice, alias, bimanes, hie, etc.) and the
form of those accents being exactly the same which, at that time, was used
for some musical notes (neumes), this fact is a new argument in favour of
the opinion that at first those neumes were nothing more than accents of a
peculiar kind. (See De Coussemaker, Ilistoire de VHarmonie au Moyen
Age, p. 160.) At the end is the colophon, in capitals, " Fin. Sermo Ermi
Diac et Mon De vita Beatissimi Soli Pb'ri ac Mohc," followed by the word
Zaras, and some Tironian notes, by another hand of the time. This Vita
is very interesting. Ermenricus was not a friend to ancient literature,
and he complains that people read Virgil and Homer, a curious charge
(the last especially), as it was not generally supposed that these authors
(particularly the second) could have been much studied in Germany in the
middle of the ninth century. See also Nos. 269, 879, and 1055 in the
present Catalogue. (See facsimile) .

1104 Finances. Sur l'Exportation des especes ; Stir l'Etablissement du

credit public en France, &c. &c. folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper

1105 Eirenze. " Bicordo di qnello che hanno a fare i Signori nel loro

reficio e maxime il Proposto e il Chonfaloniere (sic) " et alia

folio. SiEC. XV. ON PAPER

A very curious confidential and political document. Annexed are long lists of
the names of Florentine families, very probably for the elections.

1106 Eirenze. Stanzianiento delle pietanze dei frati di Badia et altre cose

folio. SiEC. XV. ON PAPER

This is a curious diary, including both the years 1426 and 1427, and containing
frequent mention of the greatest Florentine families, as the Strozzi, Altoviti,
Acciajoli, &c.

1107 Eirenze. A collection of Original Documents of the XI Vth and XVth

Centuries (1390-1486) some on vellum, in Latin or in Italian, con-
cerning the Badia di Eirenze, its Possessions, its Litigations, and the
Life of its Monks, &c. folio. S-ffiC. xiv.-xv. on yelltjm and paper

There is also a very interesting document giving a statistical account of the
town of Florence in the year 1336.

1108 Eirenze. A large collection of Documents in Latin or Italian, relating

to the Ecclesiastical History of Florence during the XVth Century

folio. SiEC. XV. ON PAPER

Several of these interesting papers illustrate the political history of Florence
at that period.

1109 Eirenze. A large collection of Original Letters and Documents

(several hundred in number) relating to the Ecclesiastical History
of Florence of the XVItb, XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries

folio. SiEC. xvi. xvii. xviii. on paper
A very interesting collection, including original letters (with the autograph sig-

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 245

natures) of Cardinal de Medicis (afterwards Pope Clement VII. ), Cardinal
d'Aragona, Cardinal Borghese, afterwards Pope Paul V. (entirely auto-
graph), the Duke of Florence (Cosimo de' Medici) three letters, AL Fig-
liucci, Al. Vitelli, Al. Strozzi, P. F. Rinuccini, II. della Rena, &c. &c.

1110 Eieenze. The Literary and Ecclesiastical Correspondence of the

Arcivescovo di Eirenze (Monsignore Tommaso Bonaventura della
Gherardesca) 4<to. S^ec. xviii. (1704, &c.) on papee.

This Autograph Correspondence, addressed to the learned Della Gherardesca,
Archbishop of Florence, to whom that city is indebted for its Seminario
Diocesano, founded by him in 1712, is of considerable interest, and
embraces several hundred letters all in the handwriting of his most eminent
contemporaries. Amongst these are communications from cardinals, arch-
bishops, bishops, heads of monastic institutions, the clerg}r, literary and
scientitic men, &c. As a sample of the Autographs, we must be content to
point out letters of Cardinals iVcciaioli, Acquaviva, Aldobrandini, Cybo,
D'Adda, DAste, Colloredo, Fabroni, Martelli, iNegrone, Panciatichi, Ruffo,
Santa Croce, Spada, di Sassonia, del Verme, De la Tremoille, Vallemani, &c. ;
Scipione de' Ricci; Leone Strozzi; Padre Politi, Lianconi, &c. ; L. Sergardi
(the celebrated author of Sectani Satirce, &c.)m, B. Galilei; &c. &c.

We have not found any mention of the Firenze documents contained in the
previous numbers, in any work which we have been able to peruse.

1110* Eoscaeini (Marco) Relazione del Sistema politico degli Affari interni
ed esterni del Stato di S. M. il Re di Sardegna con diverse Anno-
tazioni per il Governo Ecconomico folio. SiEC. xviii. on papee

This valuable Report is dated " Venecia li 2 Marzo 1743." See also No. 383
in the present Catalogue.

1111 Eeagmenta Vetusta. A Collection of Latin Fragments, written by

Anglo-Saxon Scribes during the eighth and ninth centuries

folio and 4to. SiEC. viii-ix. on vellum

A very interesting collection, consisting of leaves, or portions of leaves, written
in the finest Anglo-Saxon characters (some of the smallest fragments being
also in the Anglo-Saxon language) and relating to various subjects, namely,
Lives of Saints, Liturgy, <£c. The principal fragment (20 pages) con-
tains an ancient work on medicine, with a portion of an almanac. It
would require the high science of Sir II. Holland, to discover the title
of the medical work of which we have here a fragment. (See fac- simile.)

1112 Eeagmenta Vetusta. A. collection of five leaves containing Latin

verses, and an ancient Glossary 4ito. Sjec. viii-ix. on vellum

These most important fragments, written in the finest Carlovingian character,
a little mixed witli the Merovingian shape, formerly belonged to a single
volume, the index of the contents being at the beginning, as will be seen in
the facsimile. These contents were extremety important, as is apparent from
the same facsimile, for they contained eleven works, namely, chronicles,
glossaries, and a work of Pliny: De diversis in orbem signis, which is
now lost. We have also here some small but ancient Latin poems of which
we cannot find any trace elsewhere and, what is by no means less interesting,
portions of glossaries, some in Latin and old German (lingua theotisca),
of which the facsimiles will give a sufficient idea.

The importance of ancient German glossaries has been so clearly demon-
strated by the labours of so ninny learned men, that we need not expatiate
upon this subject. The only thing upon which we wish to insist is, that the
fragments we describe were undoubtedly written before the time in
which the celebrated Alsatian monk, Otfrid, made his German translation
of the Gospel. That translation was finished in the year 8G8, and the

246 THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS.

handwriting of the present fragments is of the end of the eighth or the
beginning of the ninth century, as the facsimile will show, and as it has
been considered by the best judges. In all probability, they are even more
ancient than the Glossarium of Rhabanus Maurus ; and we have been unable
to rind in the learned catalogues of Denis, Endlicher, &c, the description
of any manuscript or fragment like these amongst the celebrated theotiscan
monuments of the Imperial Library of Vienna. The numerous glossal con-
tained in the classical Diutiska by M. Graaf are also quite different from
those contained in this manuscript (see also No. 1009 in the present Cata •
logue). The name of Regimbertus scriptor (who condidit hoc corpus, and who,
on the first leaf, requests, in a long inscription, thefratres of his monastery,
not to lend this manuscript without exacting fidem vel pignus) is also re-
markable, and adds to the value of these leaves, which we have reason to
believe were brought from Alsatia to Paris, where they were sold. (See
facsimile).

1113 Fragmenta Vettjsta folio. 8mc. ix.-x. on yellum

An interesting collection, consisting of 41 leaves, beautifully written in red and
black, in double columns ; some of the letters (the G, N, ti, &c), as
well as the large initials, being of an Anglo-Saxon shape. These 41
leaves formerly belonged to a single manuscript containing " Decreta
ac Epistolse Pontilicum ac SS. Patrum," divided into several books.
There is an Arbor cohsanguineitatis exquisitely written, some very curious
chapters on magic, and other interesting things. On the margin of a
curious chapter the significant rubric of which is " qualiter studendum sit
regibus sacerdotum et populi peccata ulcisci," we read " Ex reg. gg.
(Gregorii) ad Brunichilda reginam Francorum ep. cc. lxxxii." (See fac-
simile) .

1114 Fragmenta Vetusta folio. $mc. x. on yellum

A portion of an ancient missal, with musical notes, consisting of 35 leaves,
beautifully written in red and black, very probably by an Anglo-Saxon
Scribe, as is shown by the singular shape of several of the letters, chiefly
the D, G, O, Q, g, m, &c. (See fac simile.)

1115 Fragmenta Vetusta. Several Fragments of Latin "Works on Juris-

prudence, Poetry, Liturgy, &c. &c.

folio and 4to. S^ec. ix. x. xi. & xii.

On a fragment of an old lectionarium of the ninth century, there is the following
memorandum : " Liber Scti Remacli in Stabulau." See also No. 496 in
the present Catalogue.

1116 Fragmenta Vetusta. A large Collection of ancient Latin Frag-

ments relating to Grammar, Physic, Kalendaria, Liturgy, Lives of
Saints, &c. &c. folio, and 4do. SiEC. ix. x. xi. & xii. on yellum

Several of these fragments contain ancient musical notes, and one a curious early
drawing. (See facsimile.)

1117 Fragmenta Vetusta. A Collection of Latin Fragments, chiefly

Liturgical folio and 4<to. 8jec. x. xi. xii. xiii. xiv. & xv. on yellum

Several of these fragments contain ancient musical notes.

By comparing the facsimiles which are in this Catalogue with the plates
given in the celebrated works of Mabillon, Montfaucon, Astle, O'Connor, De
Wailly, Shaw, 0. Jones, Count de Bastard, or the Nouveau Traite de
Diplomatique, &c. &c. it will always be easy to ascertain that the manu-
scripts belong to the century which is indicated in the Catalogue. Persons,
especially on the continent, who cannot readily obtain these large works,
would find a good means of comparison in the plates of a very interesting
book, and one easily procured, Le Livre d'Or des Metiers, by MM. P.
Lacroix, E. Fournier, et F. Sere.

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 247

1118 Fragmenta Vetusta. Four pages of an Anglo-Saxon, Greek and

Latin Glossary folio. S^;c. ix-x. on yellum

A very interesting fragment of an ancient glossary, written by an Anglo-Saxon
scribe, in very beautiful Carlovingian characters, with some letters, (chiefly
the g) of an Anglo-Saxon shape. The Anglo-Saxon words are written in
Anglo-Saxon characters, the Greek words are in Latin characters, as well
as some Hebrew words (a very rare occurrence in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts).
This glossarium is at the same time philological, historical and mythological,
and gives a very fair idea of the knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons at that
period. (See facsimile.)

1119 Fragmenta Vetusta. A Collection of Fragments (chiefly in French),

containing old Poetry, portions of Romances of Chivalry, &c. &c.

folio and Mo. SyEC. xii. xiii. & xv. on yellum

Very interesting. Some fragments in verse are written in the most ancient
French. An instance of such poetry is the following :

" Rich. lor mist lamour el ventre — Au prouvoire pas natalente — Tele Assamblee —
A Rich, donne tel colee — Ca la tre chai pasmee," &c.

There are here and there some old drawings amongst these fragments.
One, in German, relates to astrology. Two are especially interesting, as they
are written in Latin, mixed with the Provei^al or Limousin dialect, as for
instance,

" Quoniam rcpentum est . . . sine . . . mas prezas mas . . . de mon hostel . . verba."

Respecting the importance and rarity of those deeds written in Latin, mixed
with the Limousin dialect, see Raynouard (Choix de Poesies, vol. II,
p. 40-72.)

1119* Fragmenta Vetusta. A collection of Fragments of early Manu-
scripts on vellum various sizes. Sjec. xiii. xiv. xv. on yellum

These early fragments embrace portions of early liturgies (several with musical
notes), and of works on Theology, Grammar, Canon and Civil Law, &c.

1120 Fragments of early English Manuscripts, including portions of Terriers,

Deeds of Gift, Old English Poetry, Plan of " Harrington on the
Mersey leased to Lotts," &c. &c.

various sizes. Sjec. xv. & xvi. on yellum and paper

The following is a sample of the English poetry contained in these fragments ;

" He seith who so will the weildes fiend he
Godes enmy for sothe thanie bycometh he."

1121 France. Several autograph letters by Picart, " the celebrated Astro-

nomer," (Receipt for a Portrait du Roy), Ginguene, Gouget, Ch. de
Boufflers, Due de la Valliere (the eminent Book Collector), Madame
de Genlis, Charles Nodier, Gregoire, and Cardinal Maury

various sizes. S^c. xvii. xviii. xix. on paper

1122 France. A large collection of Autograph Letters (several official)

from and to Ministers of State, Diplomatists, Generals, Savants,
Artists, Poets, Novelists, Prose-Writers, Titled Ladies and Gentle-
men, &c. &c. written in the French Language

various sizes. SiEC. xviii. & xix. on paper

Amongst other celebrated names will be found autograph letters of Barante,
Vaublanc, Polignac, Villele, the Archbishop of Turin, Poinsinet de Sivry,
Prudhon, Pastoret, liobert, Roederer, Saliceti, Marshal de Broglie, Countess
de Vernon, &c. &c, with several very curious ones written by the cele-
brated Brewer Santerre, who, during the Reign of Terror, commanded
the Garde Nationale of Paris.

248 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

1123 France. A collection of above 50 Autograph Letters of eminent

Frenchmen, including Barbazan, Boufflers, Ch. de Castres, C. du
Cornet, (Painter, born without arms) Comte d'Estaing, Pere Elizee,
Lalibe d'Allais, J. Pauvillier (ex-Depute), Saint Ange (Poete),
Sabatier de Castres, Vauvillier (Academician), &c. &c.

various sizes. SiEC. xviii. & xix. on paper

1124 France. A large collection of Official and Confidential Papers relating

to the French Army and Government (including " Infanterie Irlan-
daise"), with several Documents relating to the Republic of Haiti

Jbllo. Sjec. xviii. -xix. on paper

1125 France. A collection of 40 original Deeds of the XVth and XVIth

Century, mostly in French, with Signatures

various sizes. S^:c. xv.-xvi. on yelltjm

Amongst these very valuable documents are several relating to Louis XII
(when Duke of Orleans) with his autograph signature ; others relating to
Francis I, the Bishop of Tours, and to several noble families of France.
One very important, and of extraordinary size, relates to the celebrated
Cardinal de Guise (1547).

1126 France. A collection of 36 Deeds and other Documents on vellum,

connected with the most celebrated Families (Coucy, De La Eoche-
foucault, B-. de Bellegarde, Montmorency, Rohan, &c. &c), with
Autograph Signatures various sizes. SjEC. xvi. xvii. xviii. on vellum

One (Montmorency's) is printed upon vellum.

1127 Galileo. Two original Letters, in Latin, relating to his Discoveries,

by Angelus de Filiis and Ph. Pandolfinus

folio. S^ec. xvii. on paper

These letters, or rather drafts, are in the autographs of the authors. A. de
Filiis was a member of the celebrated " Accademia dei Lined." The
letter of Pandolfini, dated 1613, relates to the spots of the sun. See the
original edition of the Macchie Solari, by Galileo.

1128 Galileo. Carteggio fra il Bali Cioli Primo Secretario di Stato del

Gran Duca Ferdinando II. e Francesco Niccolini Ambasciatore di
Toscana in Roma sopra l'Accusa data al Galileo al Sant Offizio dal
di 11 Maggio 1630 al 9 Decembre 1G33

folio. S.ec. xix. on paper (63 pages)

A transcript of numerous interesting letters, containing what Fabroni did not
publish in his " Lettere inedite d'Uomini illustri."

1129 Genova. Descrizione dello stato dell' ospitale di Genova ; Regola-

mento del rituo delle figlie Militari, &c. folio. Sjsc. xviii. on paper

There is also a " Regolamento per lo spedale di S. Giov. Battista di Torino."

1130 Gtregorii Xazianzeni (S.) Opescula yaria, Graace

vellum S.EC. xii. Charta Bometcina

A venerable Manuscript, written in singular large characters, during the
eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century, upon that thick yellowish paper
of the peculiar description, known as charta bombycina, which (as we learn,
from Montfaucon) since the tenth century was sometimes used by Greeks
having frequent intercourse with the Arabians. At the beginning there
is a note, almost defaced, stating that the present manuscript is of the
eleventh century. The seventh leaf of the volume contains an index of
the contents, in Greek. The Opuscula contained in this manuscript are
sixteen in number, namely; De Paschate ; In Sanctum Athanasium; In
Pentecosten ; In Machabcos ; In Cvprianum Martyrem ; In Iulianum
apostatam, etc. The titles generally differ from the manuscripts described

THE LIBEI MANUSCEIPTS. 249

in the " Catalogus Bibl. Regise Paris." This manuscript is written in
very curious characters, some of the Greek letters being quite different
from any which are to be found in the Paleographia Grceca, of Montfaucon.
At the end there is a leaf of vellum, written over in old Greek characters
of the ninth or tenth century. (See facsimile.)

1131 G-eoot (P. de) Brief an de Edele Mogende Heeren

folio. 1671, ON PAPER

A very interesting autograph state paper addressed to the States of Holland,
and dated Parys, 21 Martii 1671." The writer was Peter de Groot,
second son of the famous Hugo Grotius, and one of the ablest diplomatists
of his time, whilst ambassador from Holland to Louis XIV, endeavouring to
appease that irritated monarch. This valuable letter, filling three pages,
furnishes, besides information respecting the French fleet, an account of
the disgrace of the Marquis de Cessac for cheating the king and the prin-
cipal nobility at cards ; the accouchement (still-born) of Madame de Guise ;
the increase of revenue under Colbert ; the state of the army, &c. &c.

1132 Hindoo Drawings of Deities, in pen and ink, on two strips of cloth,

(24 inches by 4^) with the names of each written above the male
idols SiEC. xviii. on cloth

1133 Ibn Khallikan (Shams-al-Din Ahmad bin-Mnhammad), the " Kitab

"Wafayat-al-A'yan." Biographies of learned Men, Khalifs, adherents
of the Prophet Mohammed, &c. 4 vol. folio. S.ec. xvii. on paper

A very important and well-known work which is rarely to be found complete in
manuscripts. All Orientalists know the beautiful translation of this
valuable work, by Baron Mac Guckin de Slane.

1134 Illuminations. Nine Initial Letters, richly illuminated in gold and

colours, three of which (measuring 15 by 14-| inches, 15 by 12 inches,
and 10 by 10 inches, and adorned with representations of birds, fruits
and flowers,) are cut from a Choral Book of the fourteenth century,
one is the first leaf of a folio Latin Psalter of the beginning of the
fifteenth century, and the other five from Horse of the end of the
fifteenth century. To these are added seventeen illuminated Fac-
similes of ancient Service-Books of the ninth century, preserved at
St. Gall and at Paris.

1135 Illumination. " Apolonius de Bonfadellis de Capranica,

Sacr. Apost. Miniat. F." folio. &mq. xvi. on yellum

A most exquisite folio illumination, representing the Pieta, with several large
figures, in the style of Giulio Clovio.

The borders of this splendid illumination contain, with the name of
Bonfradelli (or Buonfratelli), the arms and device, semper suave, of the
celebrated Pope Leo X. Apollonio de Bonfradelli, whose name is very
little known, was the official papal illuminator in the time of Raphael, and
this fact is sufficient to prove that his merits need no other eulogy. His
works (chiefly signed) are exceedingly scarce. A portion of one of
them was splendidly facsimiled by Mr. Shaw, and illustrated by Sir Fr.
Madden, in the " Illuminated Ornaments selected from MSS. &c." No
doubt this magnificent illumination was intended to be suspended as a
picture in the private chapel of the Pope, the custom, even now, in Italy,
being to hang up devotional subjects in chapels and oratories. In order to
fully illustrate this splendid picture, we beg to quote here entirely the
description given by Sir Fr. Madden in the above-mentioned work (plate
XXXIX) :

" The two specimens in this plate are portions of borders which ornamented a
devotional book, in folio, executed between the years 1557 and 1570 (though it is
possible the artist may have painted some earlier) for the use of the reigning Pontiff,
by Apollonio di Buonfratelli di Capranica, who, in various inscriptions preserved by
the person who brought these miniatures to England, is styled Illuminist to the
Apostolic Chamber. The name of the artist appears to hav.e been unknown to

250 THE LIBEI MANUSCKIPTS.

Vasari and all other writers on the subject, and is not to be found in Zani's
extensive Catalogue of the Professors of the Fine Arts. M. Ottley possesses several
paintings by the same artist, with lay figures, in which he strove to imitate the style
of Michelangelo Buonaroti. He did not, however, draw the naked figures with
coiTectness. In other respects, in his borders especially, M. Ottley thinks he is not
inferior to Giulio Clovio."

In fact, in our illumination the borders, the large standing figures, and the
higher portion of the picture, are quite equal to Giulio Clovio. The
panneggiamenti especially are unrivalled.

1136 Italian Autograph Letters : Roberto Torto, 1521 ; Cardinal

Federigo Borromeo, 1611 ; Giuseppe del Papa, 1689 ; Francesco
Sav. Eedi (3), 1776-77 ; Le Comte de St. Florentin, 1750 ; Violante
Grand Duchess of Tuscany (3), 1726-27; various Letters on Theatrical
Subjects to Benelli (1819-20) ; G. Mattei Conte di Glasinar, 1694 ;
A. F. Gori, 1753 : O. Eozzi ; Conte Eugiero Falzacappa, 1759,
&c. &c. various sizes. S^ec. xvi. xvii. xviii. xix. on paper

Del Papa, a well known Tuscan physician and philosopher, was a defender of
Galileo's doctrines. Cardinal Borromeo was the founder of the great Ambro-
sian library at Milan. He is the true protagonist of the celebrated Promessi
Sposi of Manzoni.

1137 Italian Autographs. A collection of about 150 important Letters,

chiefly on literary subjects by eminent Italian Writers

various sizes. Sjsc. xviii. on paper

These very interesting literary remains embrace letters from the most learned
men of Italy, and include the names of Affo, Barotti, Bianchi, Canonici,
Costadoni, Facciolati, Frugoni, Ginanni, Gravina, Guarnacci, Guasco, G.
Marini, Metastasio, Mittarelli, Paciaudi, Tiraboschi, Volpi, Zampieri, Zirar-
dini, &c, &c.

1138 Joannis Damasceni (S.) Historia de S. Barlaamo Eremita et

Joasaphat Eeoe Indi^, Graece
original Greek stamped binding 4<to. S&c. xv. ON paper

Although this mystical romance was so extremely popular as to have
been translated into Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and
even Tangaloo, it never found an editor for the original Greek until
Boissonade inserted it in the fourth volume of his Anecdota Grwca. But
as this celebrated Hellenist, whose recent death is lamented by every
scholar, has stated in his introduction that he did not intend to give a
critical edition of this work, but to leave other scholars to do so, the
present manuscript (well written, with the rubrics and initials in red), con-
taining interesting various readings, would greatly assist any attempt at
a new text.

1139 Kazwini (Zakariya Ibn Muhammad Ibn Mahmud) The " 'Ajaib-al-

Makhlukat," or the Marvels of Creation, in Arabic

folio. S^c. xix. on paper

The great work of Kazwini on natural history and philosophy is too well known
to need illustration, for Kazwini was, in fact, the Pliny of the East, and
the small portion of his important work which has been published by
M. De Chezy in the Chrestomathie Arabe of Baron De Sacy, serves only
to excite hi every man interested in the history of science, an ardent
desire to see the entire work published and translated into one or more
of the European languages. This manuscript, well written, with tine dia-
grams and astronomical figures, is quite complete. It is well known that
the name of the author of the present work is written differently in various
manuscripts, and from this circumstance it has been sometimes supposed
that there were two different works by two distinct authors, both Kazwini
(or natives of Kazwiri), on the same subject. In the present volume
the name of the author is conformable to the majority of manuscripts in
existence (See De Sacy, Chrestomathie Arabe, vol. Ill, p. 443).

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 251

1140 Lai (Li) du Moigne, morocco folio. Sjec. xiv. on vellum

This early French Lay of 198 lines Is not either in the collection given by Le-
grand d'Aussy, or in the excellent and well selected Nouveau recueil de
Contes, Fabliaux, etc. published by M. Jubinal. Probably it was on account
of its indecency, that this poem was never printed. The following will
serve as a sample of the language employed by the monk in his bargain with
the lady :

" Par mon cief c. 1. & demi,
Ou ia ne partira demi
Fait li moignes par St- richier
Trop voles vendre votre chier,"

1141 Lami (Giovanni) e Campailla, Vita et Lettere Antografe in materia

d'Erudizione 4ito. Smc. xviii. on paper

An interesting collection. It is well known that Lami, of whom we have here
eight autograph letters, was one of the most learned men of the last
century. Campailla, a Sicilian poet, was the author of a philosophical
poem ISAdamo, for which he was called by Muratori, the Christian
Lucretius.

1142 Leibnitii (Godefridi Gulieltni) Epxstolje Autographs LXXXIV

ad J. A. Schmidt Abbatem de Marienthal et Professorem Theologise
llelmstadii 4ito. 1693-1707, on paper

The entire 84 Letters afe in the Autograph of this great Philoso-
pher and Mathematician, and are all addressed to the Abbot
of Marienthal, at that time one of the most distinguished Pro-
fessors of Theology, and lecturing at Helmstadt.

1143 Lettb.es de Cachet. A large parcel of Original Warrants (dated be-

tween 1778 and 1780) to seize and convey the persons named to their
several Destinations, and various Autograph Letters on the subject,
with the Autograph Signatures of Louis XVI, the Prince de Mont-
barey, the Due de Liancourt, Tergat (Lieutenant de la Pre vote),
Lavallette, De Ferrary, Serin, the Comte de Duras, Chopin, Lenoir,
Vicouse, the Prince de Lambert, Segur, &c. &c. S^ec xviii. on paper

Lettres de Cachets were not merely used (as some people believe) to send
parties to the Bastille, but (as is shown by the present collection of them)
were sent to every corner of France by order of the King, so as con-
stantly to interfere with the ordinary course of justice.

1144 Lettres de Noblesse. A collection of Five Grants of Arms, having

the Coats emblazoned in their proper colours, with the Autograph
Signatures of Louis XIV. and countersigned Ch. D. Hozier (Author
of the Armorial General) various sizes. SiEC. xvii. on vellum

Containing the arms of Francois Milet Sr. du Perron, Charles L'Escuyer,
Vollant, &c.

1145 Lituegy. Forms of Excommunication and of Reconciliation, in the'

handwriting of Mr. Ford 4tto. (1716) on paper

1146 Lollio (Alberto) Prologo in difesa d'una comedia fatta in prosa

folio. Sj3C. XVi. ON PAPER

A manuscript in the handwriting of this celebrated author, with original Latin
compositions by learned men of the time, addressed to Lollio.

1147 Low Countries, Holland, &c. A collection of Original Documents

relating to Affairs of these Countries duriug the XVIIth Century,
(several signed by the King of Spain) and various Autograph Letters,
including some by the Duke of Mortemar, D. Alonzo de Cardenas,
Baron d'Hona, the Conde de Trastamara (on Aifairs of the War) &c.

various sizes. SiEC xvii. xviii. xix. on paper

252 THE LIBKI MANUSCKIPTS.

1143 Lullii (Raymundi) Liber Secretorum Nature seu Quints

ESSENTIA CUM DlSPUTATIONE MONACI ; ET EJUSDEM ARCANUM

Maximum Medicinje, &c. 4to. Sjec. xv. on paper.

A collection of very curious alchemical and medical works, full of singular
figures and diagrams in different colours. On the first leaf of the text
there is the following printed inscription : Bibliotheo^e S. Io. in cana-

LIBUS PLACENTI^E.

1149 Magalotti (Lorenzo) " Abjurazione nel Peripateticismo da leggersi

nella Academia Filosofica del Serenissimo Principe Leopoldo di Tos-
cana, dal Signor Lorenzo Magalotti Segretario di essa "

folio. SjEC. xvii. ON PAPER

A very curious autograph poem, with the author's corrections.

1150 Map of the " Ville de Chateaudun en Dunois et du Pays adjacent " —

Plan de la Forest de Sains, par Nicolas Boruhart

folio. Sjec. xvi.-xvii. on vellum

The map is beautifully written and coloured, on a large sheet of vellum, with
the arms of Orleans barres, as worn by this celebrated Bdtard d1 Orleans ,
the friend and companion of Joan of Arc. He was created Comte de
Dunois, on account of his exploits during the wars between the French and
the English in the fifteenth century. On the back of this map we find a
memorandum stating that it was taken from the archives of the branch
family Dunois-Sige. The Plan appears to be from the original survey.

1151 Morgagni (Giambattista) Ten Autograph Letters of this eminent

Anatomist to Count Dandini, on Literary and Family Affairs

4<to. Sjec. xviii. (1734-35) on paper

1152 Noels kto. Sjec. xix. on paper

A transcript of early Christmas Carols in the dialect of Southern France (Pro-
vence), in the handwriting of L. Tieck, the celebrated German poet and
translator of Shakspeare.

1153 Orleans Family. A collection of 30 Original Warrants for the

Payment of the Warlike Stores, and Incidental Expenses of the
Troops in Italy, issued by Enguerrand de Coucy Comte de Soissons
in his capacity of Lieutenant " de tres hault et puissant Prince Mon-
seigneur le Due d' Orleans," with Beceipts and other Documents
connected with the War, having Signatures and Seals

various sizes. Sjec. xiv. (1395) on yellum

Most of these documents are very curious and important. To several of them
the accounts are appended.

1154 Orleans Family. Five Original Deeds of Jehan de Soleville Garde

de la Prevoste de Paris, with Seals, respecting Donations given by
H. M. Charles VI. to his Brother the Duke of Orleans, and the
Death of the Duchess of Orleans

folio. Sjec. xiv. (1393 to 1396) on yellum

The Duchess of Orleans, whose death is here alluded to, is called by
Charles VI. " feue ma tante," and must not be confounded with the beau-
tiful Valentine de Milan, the wife of Louis Due d'Orleans.

1155 Orleans Family. A collection' of IS Early Deeds on vellum, with

Seals, chiefly relating to Payments on Account of Voyages performed
by Orders of the Dukes of Orleans, with Signatures

various sizes. Sjec. xv. on yellum

THE LIBEI MANUSCRIPTS. 253

1L56 Orleans Family. A collection of 13 Early Documents respecting
the Financial Affairs of the Duke of Orleans, chiefly signed by Jehan
Cotereau, Secretary to the Duke

various sizes. SiEC. xv. on vellum

1157 Orleans Family. A collection of 36 Original Deeds on vellum, with

Seals (from 1343 to 1497) including several relating to the celebrated
Warrior and Poet, Charles Duke of Orleans, who during the XV th
Century was so long detained a Prisoner in England, and whose
Poems have been printed for the Roxburghe Club (and very ably
republished in France by the learned M. Aime Champollion-Figeac)

various sizes. SiEC. xiv-xv. on yellum

To show the character of Charles d'Orleans it will be sufficient to quote from
M. Villemain's admirable " Tableau de la litterature au moyen age," (vol. II.
p. 228) :

" Fait prisonnier il est conduit en Angleterre ; et il y fut garde" vingt cinq ans.

" Cette captivite nous a valu le volume de poesie le plus original du xve Siecle, le
premier ouvrage ou rimagination soit correcte et naive, ou le style offre une
elegance prdmaturee, ou le poete, par J a douce emotion dont il etait rempli, trouve
de ces expressions qiii n'ont point de date, et qui, £tant toujours vraies, ne passent
pas de la langue et de la memoire d'un peuple. Sans doute, quelques empreintes
de rouille se melent a ces beautes primitives ; mais il n'est pas d'etude ou Ton
puisse mieux decouvrir ce que l'idiome Francais, manic" par un homnie de ge"nie,
offrait deja de creations heureuses."

1158 Orleans Family. Six Receipts on vellum for Monies paid in 1495

and 1496, for Voyages performed on Account of the Duke of Orleans ;
also an Original Deed from Marie de Grancey Dame de Trave, ap-
pointing Huguenard Huret of Traves her Messenger, with Seal,
1498 various sizes. S.ec. xv. on yellum

1159 Orsoline. Numerous Letters to the Pope and various Ecclesiastics,

relating to the Miracles and Virtues of the B. Angela Merici,
Foundress of the Orsoline Institute

folio. S.EC. xvii. and xviii. on paper

1160 Paludi Pontine. Sani (Angelo) Operazioni pratiche da farsi per la

Deviazione delle Acque che formano le Paludi Pontine e Riflessioni
sopra il Metodo da tenersi nella Bonificazione — Suggerimenti di
un Anonimo per il Regolamento &c. — Osseryazioni sopra le
Peschiere (da A. Sani 1764) — Sani (A.) Lettera sulle Paludi, 1775 —
Concessio Paludum ad C. Meyer — Rapport pour la Formation
a Paris d'une Compagnie pour le Dessechement des Marais Pontines,
&c. &c. folio. Sj3C. xviii. on paper

A collection of valuable historical and hydrographical documents, concerning
the Paludi Pontine and the Agro Romano.

1161 Papal Bulls of Leo X, Clement VII, and Julius III, and other

Original Deeds, with Signatures

(13) various sizes. S^ec. xiv. xv. xvi. on yellum

On one of the deeds, dated 1389, are some Latin verses, and on another illumina-
tions, but damaged.

1162 Pappeniieim (Gr. H. Count of) Interesting Autograph Letter in Spanish,

on Military Affairs, dated "De Milano en 12 Junio, 1627 "

folio. 1627, ON PAPER
A valuable autograph of one of the most celebrated generals of the thirty years'
war, who fell, mortally wounded, at the battle of Lutzen, and died on the
following day, after writing to Wallenstein, " I die content, as the greatest
enemy of my religion (Gustavus Adolphus) has perished at the same time."
The king of Sweden, always called him le soldat, par excellence, and Wal-
lenstein considered him his best commander. This letter is signed El D.
de Bapenheim. Specimens of his handwriting are rare.

254 THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS.

1163 Poggii Epistola Jacobo Zeno Mo. SiEC. xv. on paper

This is one of the most violent invectives written by the celebrated Poggio
Bracciolini. At the end there is a Latin letter of Petrus de Supervilla
ad Bartholomseum Physicum (1455).

1164 PoRTULAisro. "Jacobus Maiolus condam Vescontis fecit hanc Cartam

G-enue anno domini 1567 die xxfebruarii"
half bound royal folio. SiEC. xvi. ON yellttm

Beautifully drawn on two sheets of vellum (pasted to form one) and gorgeously
illuminated in gold and colours. This very large and elegant chart is
ornamented with various paintings of tents, ships, flags, castles, and full-
length portraits of the " Madonna col Bambino," the Emperor of Germany,
the Kings of Spain, France, Poland, Russia, and Tartary, the Grand
Turk, and Prester John, all painted in costume.

The Visconti of Genoa were a family in which cosmography was an here-
ditary science. We know from Garampi and Potocki, that in the Imperial
Library of Vienna there is a Portulano made by Piero Visconti, of Genoa, in
1318 (SeeSpotorno, StoriaLett.dellaLiguria, vol.11, p. 313), but we have been
unable to And any mention of this "Jacobus Majolus condam Visconti,"
who, no doubt, belonged to the same family, and perhaps also was con-
nected with the Thoma Majoli, so well known to collectors of ancient
bindings. The present large and truly magnificent map, executed in the
same year as the map of Jean Martinus, of Messina, described by Viscount
de Santarem, is one of the most interesting and richly illuminated in exist-
ence. It contains all Europe with the islands, including Iceland, and like
some more ancient maps, the celebrated and fabulous Fixlanda (here a very
large island) mentioned by the Zeni, Russia (which is a rare occurrence in
ancient maps), Tartary, Turkey, the Black Sea (with the Crimea), Asia
Minor, the Red Sea, Egypt, and the whole of northern and western Africa
up to the Senegal, with the Canary Islands, and the Azores. The illumi-
nations of this splendid portulano, are in the same style, but much finer
and larger than those contained in the celebrated one by J. de La
Cosa, (the famous Colombus pilot, respecting whom see De Humboldt
Examen critique, vol. V, p. 160, and plates,) splendidly but partially only
facsimiled in the great Atlas of Viscount cle Santarem. Concerning the
importance of this and the other Portulani and geographical monuments
described in this Catalogue, see also Baldelli Viaggi di M. Polo, il Milione.
(vol.1, pp. xxix, clvi, clxi, etc.). See also No. 827 in the present Catalogue.

1165 Precepts of the Mohammedan Religion, in Turkish

Mo. 1719, OS PAPER

Written in the year 1719, in Egypt, by Father " Carlo Antonio a Coltario," of
the Order of Minorites, at Nazareth in Galilee.

1166 Ricct (Scipione de, Vescovo di Pistoja e di Prato) Lettera a sua San-

tita (23 Gruigno 1781) ed altre cose folio. S.EC. xviii. on paper

An important document, containing a copy of the abominable " Massime tenute
dalle monache di Prato," &c. concerning which see the Vie de M. de Ricci,
by De Potter.

1167 Rime di diversi Aetori (Marco Lamberti, E. Ruspoli, J. A. Cicog-

nini, Griraldi, Villifranchi, A. Malatesti, &c. &c.)
vellum folio. Sjec. xvii-xiii. ok paper

Most of these poems, written in Florence, are of a free character and unpublished.

1168 Risalah Jahmat-al-Akhbar fl Tlm-al-Tawarikh. An Historical Treatise

on the Jews, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Mohammed, the Khalifs, &c.
(by Hassan Ibn 'Omar Ibn Habbib), in Arabic

small Mo. Sjec. xviii. on paper

This work, which seems unknown, contains curious information respecting the
manner in which Greek and Roman history is learned by Arabians.

THE LIBRI MANUSCRIPTS. 255

11G9 Romaic. A Commentary in modern Greek upon the two books^ of
the " Analytica Posteriora " of Aristotle Mo. Svec. xvii. on paper

Manuscripts in modern Greek are of rare occurrence. The work was appa-
rently written in the fifteenth century. This manuscript, which is in two
handwritings, and is preceded by an index of the chapters, was formerly in
the " Bibliotheca Halliwelliana."

1170 Sardegna. Etat des Rentes de S. M. le Roy de Sardaigne scavoir

Impots ordinaires et extraordinaires, des Droits des Gabelles de
Douane, des Pensions anx Ministres, Officiers. des Ordres Religieux
et de leurs Rentes dans la Ville et Territoire de Turin, 1774-75 —
Stato generale dell' Anime essistenti negli Stati, 1775 — Various
Papers relating to Nice, including a printed Broadside (Sentence of
the Senate of Nice against D. Rigiano for Sacrilege), 1784 — Sardini
(Monsignor) Lettre al Marchese Ormea sopra le corranti emergenze
tra il Re di Sardegne e la Santa Scde

various sizes. SiEC. xviii. on paper

1171 Sirmondi (Jac.) Collectanea Grseca folio. SiEC. xvii. on paper

An interesting autograph collection of unpublished Greek Opuscuia, collected
from various ancient manuscripts by this celebrated philologist, and containing
several works by Theodorus, Nicephorus, and other unpublished Greek
authors. This collection, as well as that described in lot No. 915 in the
present Catalogue, was formerly hi the celebrated collection of M. Parison,
of Paris.

1172 Sibt-al-MardTni (Badr-al-Dln Muhammad bin Muhammad) "Risalah

fi-al-Majib, &c." An Astronomico- Geometrical Treatise on the
Mode of ascertaining the direction of the Kiblah by means of the
quadrant or circle, in Arabic 4>to. Sjec. xviii. on paper

The date and author of the original composition are not given, but this copy
was written by one Jar Allah Badr-al-Ziyat-al-Maliki, and came into the
possession of a certain Hussain, who was residing at the time with the
Imam-al-Hassan, in Arabia, in the year of the Hegira 118G (a.d. 1771),
and afterwards by fair purchase at holy Mecca, into that of Muhammad-al-
MazrukM-cd-Hassani and his brother, anno Hegirse 1245 (a.d. 1829). This
work, which contains a diagram and arithmetical tables, has never been
printed.

1172* State Papers. Abrege d'un discours faict avec Sa Sainctete, apres le
despart du frere du roy (1576). La Cour et laMaison des Archiducz
en Flandres (1610), &c. &c. folio. Sjec. xvi.-xvii. on paper

Yery curious papers. There are also some original letters of Meerman, the Dutch
ambassador in France ; of Durand, French minister in Poland, &c, &c.

1173 Theorica Planetarum. On the Planetary Theory and Influence (in

German) folio. S^ic. xv. on paper

This work, both astrological and astronomical, is anonymous. Boetius is quoted
almost at the beginning.

1174 Tiraboschi (Cavaliere Abate Girolamo) Five interesting Autograph

Letters of the celebrated Author of the " Storia della Litteratura
Italiana " 4<to. SiEC. xviii. on paper

On literary subjects : relating to the works of " Padre AfFo," Letters of Tasso,
his own Biblioteca Modenese, &c.

1175 Trevisani (Bernardo) Storia di Venezia e Lombardia (1171-1440)

folio. Svec. xviii. on paper

This very minute and curious work is unknown to all the biographers (even
to the learned M. Cicogna) and seems unpublished. Unfortunately the

256 THE LIBEI MANUSCBIPTS.

first portion (195 pages) containing the History of Venice prior to 1171
is deficient. B. Trevisano was a very learned Venetian nobleman, who
in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries collected a celebrated library
of manuscripts and printed books, chiefly relating to the history of
Venice, but which unfortunately was dispersed. This work is in his hand-
writing, but we do not know if he was really the author or the only copyist
of it. His excellent work on the Laguna di Venezia was published in
1715. His manuscript Codice containing so many ancient documents which
was especially regretted in the dispersion of his library, has been recently
discovered by Mr. Pertz in the Imperial Archives of Vienna, and is quoted
by him in the fourth volume (p. 35) of his celebrated and truly grand work
Monumenta Germanica Historica.

1176 Universities of Prance. A parcel of very curious papers (printed
and manuscript), both Historical and Statistical, relating to the
Prench Universities and Schools from the Xlllth Century

various sizes. SiEC. xviii.-xix. on paper

Some are original, amongst which is a long report, signed by the celebrated
Ampere. Most of these papers are in the handwriting of the learned Pere
Adry.

A CONSIGNMENT FEOM ABROAD,

ADDED BY THE KIND PERMISSION OP

M. LIBRI.

LOT

1177 Cassiodori (Magni Aurelii) Commentarius in Psalrnos L. (CI. — CL.)

in the original oak boards folio. SvEC. xi.-xii. on tellum

This venerable manuscript is written on very stout vellum, the Commentary
being in elegant Roman black characters, and the text of the Psalms
in rustic red capitals. The red colour used for the text and initial letters
has all the appearance of being a metallic substance.

1178 Chorale et Hymnarium Ecclesijs, cum Notis musicis

in the original binding, ivith engraved brass corners and bosses

royal folio. S^ec. xiii. on yellum

A magnificent manuscript, written in very large missal characters, and adorned
with very elegant drawings and illuminated capitals in the early Italo-
Byzantine style of art. Besides these ornaments, every page exhibits spe-
cimens of the skill of the caligraphist who has flourished with his pen
innumerable portraits and grotesques, only to be equalled by our own
inimitable Cruikshank, This valuable manuscript formerly belonged to the
Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere at Rome.

1179 Decretalium Libri, cum Commentario

in the original oak boards folio. S^;c. xiv. on yellum

1180 Homili^e et Sermones Sanctorum Patrum, 3 vol.

in the original oak boards. folio. S^ec. xi. on yellum

Written on very stout vellum, in Roman characters, having the headings
in rustic capitals. This splendid manuscript formerly belonged to the
Monastery of the Umiliati at Brescia, (Domus Sancti Lucae Ordinis
Fratrum Humiliatorum). At the end of the last volume, is the following
inscription or colophon : " Ego Benedictus PRB hunc librum scriberi
jussi," &c. These Homilies (chiefly on portions of the Gospels) are
extracted from Augustinus, the Venerable Bede, Ambrosius, Leo Papa,
Hieronymus, Gregorius Papa, Gregorius Turonensis, Origenes, Johannes
Osaureus (Chrysostomus), Odo Abbas Cluniacensis, Rabanus Maurus,
Aimon, Sevirianus, &c. &c. Half of the second volume is occupied by
Lives of Saints, containing, among others : Passio beatissimi Martyris
Nazarii ; Passio SS. Martyrum Felicis, Simplicii, Faustini et Beatricis
Passio S. Laurentii ; Passio SS. Apostolorum Petri et Pauli ; Passio S.
Jacobi Apostoli ; Passio B. Bartholoma>i ; Passio B. Mathsei ; Passio
Simonis; Passio S. Andress; Passio S. Thomse Apostoli; Passio S. Faustini
et Jovita? ; Passio S. Viti; Passio S. Johannis et Pauli (having at the end of

s

258 A CONSIGNMENT FROM ABROAD.

this, the Canticles, " Incipit Cantica Canticorum ") ; Vita Donati Episcopi ;
Passio SS. Martyrum Domnini, Dionisii Rustici et Elutherii ; Passio S.
Martini ; Passio Beatissimae Virginis et Martyris Cecilise, Tiburtii et Vale-
riani ; &c. These venerable volumes would supply many curious and ex-
cellent various readings for new Editions of the Fathers, or Lives of the
Saints.

1181 ISIDOEI HlSPALENSIS (S.) CoMMENTAEII IN PENTATEUCHUM MoSIS

et in Libeos Josu^s Judicum et Ruth — Oeioenis Homili^; in
Libbum Jesum Eilium Nau^e (Josuam)
in the original oak hoards folio. S.ec. x. ON yellum

Written on pure vellum, in large Carlovingian characters, with rustic capitals.
Manuscripts of these Commentaries of St. Isidore, are of the rarest occur-
rence.

1182 Leotionarium et Obationale secundum Consuetudinem Ro-

han^ CuRiiE, cum Calendario
in the original oak binding folio. Smc. xiii. ON vellum

A very complete copy of a Service-Book, which very rarely occurs in a perfect
state, written in large characters, with the rubrics in red ink. The nume-
rous capital letters throughout are painted alternately in red and blue,
several of them being elegantly flourished. The numerous chants are
noted on four staves. The Calendar is valuable for the names of the
Saints commemorated, amongst which will be found that of St. Thomas a
Becket. From ancient additions therein it is probable that this fine manu-
script formerly belonged to the Order of Umiliati, as there are entries
respecting the days set aside for celebrating the festivals of their Saints.

1183 LooiCiE Compendium, commencing " Quum de dictis in Logica intendo

unum Compendium compilare " — Explicit Expositio super libro
Prsedicainentorum Aristotelis secundum famosum magistrum Gual-
terum de Liny — Expliciunt Solempnse quaestiones Domini Griidei
de Venetilinis ? — Pauli de Veneciis Logica — Commentarii in Por-
phyrii et Aristotelis Opera varia
in the original oak boards folio. S.ec. xv. on papeb

1184 Miss ale Bomanum, cum Calendario

in the original oak boards, with bosses folio. Sj^c. xiii.-xiv, on yellum

This very early and valuable Manuscript is written in a fine bold Italian hand,
with the Rubrics in red. It is adorned with several illuminated capitals,
and a curious painting of the Crucifixion, with the Blessed Virgin and St.
John standing beneath, executed most probably by one of the Greek
Artists who flourished at Otranto, at the beginning of the Fourteenth Century,
and earned a livelihood by the painting of Triptichs. The Calendar (in-
cluding the notice of St. Thomas a Becket) and Table of Epacts are appa-
rently from a Manuscript at least a century earlier than the body of the
work itself. The fly-leaves are from a Lectionarium of the Twelfth Century.
Unfortunately this venerable codex is slightly imperfect, wanting a few
leaves in the Canon Missce.

1185 Passionale site Vit.e et Mabtteia Sanctoeum pee Anni Cie-

culum, 2 vol. in old oak boards, covered in calf, with brass corners
and bosses folio. Sjec. xii. on vellum

A magnificent and very important manuscript, written on very thick vellum,
with numerous initials of elegant design, in various colours. The body of
it is in Roman characters, and the headings in rustic capitals. This
extremely valuable Collection of the Lives of the Saints is arranged
according to the months of the year, commencing with January, and ending
with December, a few leaves at* the commencement (containing a portion of

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the life of S. Julian) being deficient. At the end of the second volume, in
a more recent handwriting, are the following additions :

" Qualiter basilica see Male maioris de urbe ad signum nivis celitus ostense hedi •
• ficata fuit; Passio B'ti Eustracii m'ris; Vita S. Eligii; et Passio beate Bo-nose
virg. et mar'tis."

as an original source for illustrating profane as well as
Ecclesiastical History these Volumes are almost invaluable.

1186 Psalterium Davidis, Cantica Biblica, Symbolum S. Athanasii,

Oratio Dominicalis, Symbolum Apostolorum et Hymni
totius Anni, cum Notis Musicis et Calendario, in the original oak
hoards, ivith brass bosses and corners folio. S;ec. xiii. on vellum

A splendid Manuscript, written in very large missal characters on pure vellum,
with richly illuminated capitals, of which the first contains a representation
of David playing on the Harp.

1187 Psalterium Davidis Accedunt Cantica Biblica, Oratio Dominica,

Symbola Apostolorum et S. Athanasii, et Hymni varii, cum Notis
Musicis et Calendario, in the original oak boards, with copper bosses
and clasps folio. SiEC. xiii. on vellum

This beautiful Manuscript is written in a large and bold hand, the capitals
alternately painted in blue and red. Several initials are highly ornamented
and coloured in the early style of miniatures; amongst which the letter B in
Beatus, at the commencement, is an elegant specimen of early Art. The
Calendarium prefixed is very copious in the names of Saints, amongst which
will be found that of St. Thomas a Becket. The fly-leaves are from a
royal folio Latin Bible, written in the Tenth Century.

1188 Eemigius Episcopus Bemis exposuit Epistolas Sancti Pauli

Apostoli luculento Sermone, in the original oak boards with
copper bosses folio. Sjec. xi. (1067) on vellum

This venerable and magnificent manuscript appears to have been written for the
Church of St. Cecilia (at Kome) as is clear from the following Anathema
prefixed : " Quicumque istum librum rapuerit aut furaverit vel aliquo malo
ingenio abstulerit ab seccl'a see Cseciliae sit p. petua damnatione damnat' et
maledict' nisi reddiderit vel emdaverit. Fiat. Fiat. Amen. Amen."
It is written in large Roman letters (the text of the Epistles in red
and the Commentary in black ink), the headings being in rustic capitals.
It is adorned with several curious drawings, executed in the Byzantine
style of art. The first of these drawings, representing St. Paul praying
to the image of Our Saviour (which is within an oval frame, supported
by angels,) fills nearly half the page at the commencement of the Com-
mentary, and is surrounded by an elegant border. In the lower margin of
the first leaf, containing the Prologues, the verses of St. Damasus, and the
Anathema, is the following inscription : " In anno ab Incarnatione dni nrl
Jhu xpi An. salutis miilesimo sexagesimo VIIMOIndic. V. &c." A similar
inscription is also repeated at the bottom of the following leaf. Al-
though in this manuscript the work is attributed to St. Remy, Archbishop
of Rheims and Apostle of the French, it cannot be his, for he was born
about 438, and could not quote Becle, and Pope Gregory, who lived after
him. Aubertin, in his work " de Eucharistia," adduces several cogent and
satisfactory reasons why it should be rather assigned to "Remigio Antis-
siodorensV1 (Remy, a Monk of the Abbey of St. Germain at Auxerre).
Villa! pandus, in his edition of this Commentary, printed at Rome hi 1598,
claimed it however for the Archbishop of Rheims, and published it with
his name attached, but Le Comte has most ably rebutted all the arguments
he used for substantiating the authorship. By other writers it has been
attributed to Saint Remy, Archbishop of Lyons, who died in 875 ; and by
Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres, who himself died about 1030, it is assigned
to Haymo, Bishop of llalberstadt, under whose name it was printed at
Paris in' 1 556.

260 A CONSIGNMENT FEOM ABEOAD.

1189 Eime Italiane. A collection of Italian Sonnets, Satires and other

S Z I °? *fea ?ank P°rtions of a volume> containing
Spanish Proverbs (in MS.) arranged alphabetically

4ito. S^c. xvii. ON PAPER

Probably by J F. Lazzarelli, of Gubbio, as there are several poems on Don

bT^? 6- Wf t name-?- V^llk^^ Lazzarelli attempted to render

B Arrighnu, of Lucca, ridiculous. Several of the poems (per le P

ad una P ... . che l'abbandona, &c), are rather free (P ' * " "

1190 Sermones Patrum Sanctorum et Lectionarium

4it0. SiEC. xiv.-XV. ON PAPER

This early and valuable manuscript, which is unfortunately imperfect contains
several sermons by the Venerable Bede. J mipenect, contams

THE END.

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